Moderate snow January 14th

A strong clipper system effected the area yesterday with heavy snowfall which fell in a fairly short time! the first flakes started to fly at my location around 2pm or so, and it started to become moderate by around 3pm. By evening I had a short term forecast warning for heavy snow based on what I saw upstream of us, and this became true around 6pm, heavy snow started falling and it lasted for a good 45 minutes to an hour. A quick 2 inches accumulated in literally a 2 hours time. By the time the system was said and done I had 3.25″ of new snow on the ground.

Snow covered front garden January 15th

This system had a few interesting traits with it besides the heavy snow in a short time, one of the most interesting was how localized some of the snow was. Just a few miles made the difference in as much as an inch of snow. The first report I seen like this came out of the Rice Lake area, one report was a different near an inch between a 7 miles difference. This is not the only place this difference was seen. I texted a friend of mine in Turtle Lake to see what he got and he told me 2.50″ I was so surprised I asked a second time, and he said this was true. His 2.50″ report is three quarters of an inch behind my 3.25″ inch report, and Turtle Lake is only 5 miles from me!

Reported snowfall totals.

All reported were well over an inch, but the highest report came from the Blue Hills area of Barron County, where 5.50″ was reported northwest of Rice Lake. The least came from River Falls at 2.0″

Here is a picture of how high the banks are getting around my yard, which looks more like something you would find near Lake Superior then Western Wisconsin, just prof how snowy it has been! Were well over 20 inches for a snow depth, I have yet to mesure, but once I do I’ll report it here and on twitter.