march snow

It’s 3:42 AM and the March snow storm is here and it is really coming down! It’s not true blizzard conditions yet because I can see my neighbor’s outdoor lights and they live a quarter mile from me. It’s cold too. 27 degrees. 12 hours ago it was 70 degrees, the humidity was way down there, the wind was blowing at 50 miles an hour and we had just finished fighting a range fire.  That’s life on the southern high plains. Back to bed!

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8:30 AM and we have near white out conditions. I am going to get some pictures. We have huge drifts in the yard and it is really coming down. Good snow!

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7:32 PM and the snow is tapering off. It has been snowing for around 23 hours now and the temperature is 21 degrees. Lots of good moisture which we need badly. It appears we have received about 8 – 10 inches but it is very hard to tell because of the drifting. We have 3 – 31/2 foot drifts all around the house.  Further up north and east in Dalhart, Texas they are reporting drifts up to the tops of houses!  Interstate 40 has been closed between Albuquerque and Sayer, Oklahoma pretty much all day and the last time I looked US 54 was closed as well. I-25 was closed for a while between Albuquerque and Santa Fe but is now back open. The wind, at least here, has died down and has shifted and is starting to come out of the northwest so I think the weather system has pretty well tracked off into Texas and Oklahoma. They are still predicting up to 24 inches of snow from the northeast Texas Panhandle over to Woodward, Oklahoma.

March snow storm

Picture taken around 9AM on 3/27/09