Snow? Freezing Rain? Sleet?
In any event, Something Very Slippery is most likely moving through the area tonight. With temperatures around 32 degrees in Hood River, the precipitation could fall as snow, or it could be rain that freezes into ice pellets before it hits the ground (sleet), or it could be rain that freezes onto the surfaces it falls upon (freezing rain).
Forecasts are for the precipitation to turn to rain by morning, but wintery conditions in Hood River are often underestimated in intensity and duration by forecast models.
Feel free to post your local observations here.
It's starting as snow, at 6 pm.
ReplyDelete4 inches so far, at 8 pm. The record for this date is 3.3 inches, so if the official Hood River OSU Ag Station confirms this, it's a record... and the snow keeps falling...
ReplyDeleteI just shoveled four inches of LOW water content snow from my hot tub in WS. Let it snow!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the updates.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who plans to visit Hood River in the next few days, it's useful to find out what the weather is like.
Better to be prepared this time of year.