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It's 12 degrees outside as I type this at 12:00 am. Pretty cold for oklahoma, we also had a little bit of snow last night. The dogs certainly appreciate coming inside tonight.

Ok.. After "The Weather Putzs" got it all out of their systems again with all kinds of coverage of "The Big One" again.. They should all be embarrassed.. We got 2-3in.. Glad we only got that amount and not more.. Got 2 properties cleared and got 2 more to go.. Oh yeah.. 20deg and Sun!!!
John

Got down to 5 above last night in Grant county Indiana, brrrrrr.

Even at 20 below in March and the snowiest Feb. on record and poised to match one of the coldest stretches of cold ever in our area, I'm not the least tempted to move down where tornedoes, hurricanes, and floods are killing so many. In a couple months we will be living in paradise. Until then I may sleep. ____Dave

Lotsa heavy snow

garddogg56 wrote:Lotsa heavy snow

I feel for ya!!! That is not a good sight!! Go slow and be careful!!!
John

Bright and sunny now. At 6 AM 6 inches of fresh cold snow to remove. What's better than this?

It started raining here in Sioux Falls early this morning with 6 tenths of an inch falling and the temp at 32, coating most everything with ice. Now the temp has fallen one degree and it is snowing heavily. This is a very large system and it extends all the way down to Texas. Hope the ice on the power lines doesn't lead to problems.

Really bizarre weather in South Dakota over the past few days. Here in the southeastern part we had a lot of snow on the ground, then Wednesday it rained 1.75 inches and was 35 degrees. This had the effect of dumping a lot of water on top of frozen ground, which melted a lot of the snow and cause a lot of flooding problems for a lot of people. Bridges were washed out, basements flooded, and a lot of the main streets were even closed right in Sioux Falls. Further west in the southwestern part of the state there was a lot of snow as the temp. was colder there. This picture was on our local news of a rancher out near Kyle SD digging out some of his animals that got buried.

OLDE CUTLER wrote:Really bizarre weather in South Dakota over the past few days. Here in the southeastern part we had a lot of snow on the ground, then Wednesday it rained 1.75 inches and was 35 degrees. This had the effect of dumping a lot of water on top of frozen ground, which melted a lot of the snow and cause a lot of flooding problems for a lot of people. Bridges were washed out, basements flooded, and a lot of the main streets were even closed right in Sioux Falls. Further west in the southwestern part of the state there was a lot of snow as the temp. was colder there. This picture was on our local news of a rancher out near Kyle SD digging out some of his animals that got buried.

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That's crazy!!!

Wow, cow up to the horns in snow, never saw anything like that before!

Well.. At least we got a taste of warmth on Thur.. 80deg.. Today we are back to 30 and snow.. WTH???? Staying in the low 40s for highs this coming week with below freezing at night!!

COME ON SPRING!!!!!

John

OLDE CUTLER wrote:Really bizarre weather in South Dakota over the past few days. Here in the southeastern part we had a lot of snow on the ground, then Wednesday it rained 1.75 inches and was 35 degrees. This had the effect of dumping a lot of water on top of frozen ground, which melted a lot of the snow and cause a lot of flooding problems for a lot of people. Bridges were washed out, basements flooded, and a lot of the main streets were even closed right in Sioux Falls. Further west in the southwestern part of the state there was a lot of snow as the temp. was colder there. This picture was on our local news of a rancher out near Kyle SD digging out some of his animals that got buried.

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Wow, that is wild! Still knee deep to waist deep snow here on the homestead, temps hovering around 38 in the day and 15 at night. Good temps to help melt the snow, last thing we need is rain and higher temps. Stay safe folks

38 and snowing HARD now....
John

It was 75 degrees and sunny in Sioux Falls yesterday, BUT coming in the next couple of days is a huge storm which is expected to bring heavy rain and/or snow depending on local temps. We had a real big storm like this last year on this same week in April. We could get 10-15 inches of snow, winds, and mid twenties degree wise. I sincerely hope they are wrong again about this one.

Don't think we got 15 inches this year in Grant County Indiana. Thank the Lord!

OLDE CUTLER wrote:It was 75 degrees and sunny in Sioux Falls yesterday, BUT coming in the next couple of days is a huge storm which is expected to bring heavy rain and/or snow depending on local temps. We had a real big storm like this last year on this same week in April. We could get 10-15 inches of snow, winds, and mid twenties degree wise. I sincerely hope they are wrong again about this one.

That storm is suppose to give us around a foot and two feet to our south. I'm hoping neither one of us get nailed. It's been a long winter. ____Dave

Dave.. Please be safe and hope all is OK with your southern family!!
John

Southern Minnesota is getting nailed with heavy snow and high winds. Freeways South of the Twin Cities are closed. Up here we are just getting wind and the snow is suppose to arrive tomorrow afternoon. Most all the schools have already canceled for tomorrow. We are counting on winds off Lake Superior to keep much of this mess to our South. I'm not planning on going anywhere until maybe Saturday.____Dave

We are having an assortment of types of precipitation in Sioux Falls. Rain, freezing rain, snow, and ice pellets have all appeared as the temp goes up and down. It is 28 degrees now with 35 mph winds. So far maybe 2-3 inches of snow. Interstate highways are closed here as are the schools. There are some scattered power outages also. Should be better by noon tomorrow.

Low 70's yesterday in central Indiana to the upper 40's today. I'm ready for spring. Did get up to 68 today, can't trust cell phone forcast for weather!

Not good here in eastern SD. The local electric utility is reporting that there are thousands of people out of power, 27 electrical substations are out of power, there are about 200 power poles snapped off from ice and snow load. In SW Minnesota there is about another 150 poles down. The crews working on restoring power will be stopping for the night at 8:30 this evening, so if you dont have power by then it will not be on till at least tomorrow. Our neighborhood has been fortunate in that we still have power on and we are keeping our fingers crossed. Can you imagine how long it would take to replace 200 power poles? Crews are coming here from other parts of the country to assist.

OC my heart goes out to you. Hope you keep your power and make it to warm up.

Northern Minnesota didn't get the snow amounts they predicted but we sure got the wind and the snow we got was pretty much horizontal blowing snow, so it's a little hard to measure how much we did get. I'm guessing about 3 inches. I was loading 1X8X8ft. boards today before the snow started, and they were blowing off my cart faster that I could grab them. My wife had to hold them down as I loaded them into our vehicle to keep them from blowing away. The wind was sustained at over 30 MPH with gusts up to 65 MPH. We got home before the snow got close to white-out. Our power stayed on but some trees are down. Hopefully nothing goes down on power lines tonight. The snow has pretty much stopped but the wind is still howling. ____Dave

The snow from last weeks blizzard is gone now, and it is suppose to get to 78 degrees tomorrow, so I am really going to stick my neck out and put the snow shovels away tomorrow!