Winchester (nw) VA
WX Tue 12/19
Snow flurries that began to fall about dawn became a light then moderate
snow from 8am until 5pm. By 5pm, a light snow shower & flurry pattern
resumed until 11pm. Snowfall totalled 4 1/2". The high struggled to
29 (at 2:27pm) and fell off to 21.5 just before midnight. While winds
were light during the event, but increased to 15-20 mph late evening. A
PWG of 24mph at 10:47pm and a low windchill of 12 below at 11:14pm.
Numerous accidents kept the police busy. Listening to the scanners, i
would estimate at any given time that 5 to 10 wrecks were being or
waiting to be investigated. Many were just people sliding off the road.
School administrators had a tough decision whether to send the students
to school. Only 1-3" was forecast from late am to mid afternoon. All
local schools went on time, but let out several hours early as snowfall
intensified. Several busses slid off roadways. As conditions worsened,
the decision was made to keep elementary age students at the respective
schools until buses w/ chains arrived. A normally 2 or 3 hour process
took upwards of 8 hours.
Local city schools had a 2 hour delay Wed, and the county schools were
closed. In fact, many Washington DC area school systems were closed Wed.
Local News Link:
http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/001220/Default.asp
My Photopoint Gallery on snowstorm
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=817111&a=10540496
A boy was killed in a WV sledding accident. Story:
http://www.nbc25.com/Global/story.asp?S=200405&nav=0aMJ
In the Atlanta area, the deepest Dec snow in over 100 years, and about
2/3 the seasonable average fell at dawn Tue. It was so bad that my niece
wont have to return school until early Jan. (Winter break would have
started Thur.) Story:
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/newsatlanta/snow122000/index.html
WX Wed 12/20
A few clouds when i took this shot, but unsure how clear it stayed,
since i had a 7 1/2 hour shift in the mall Wed. Anyway, low was 15.8 at
6:40am, the high was 28 at 1pm. We are now nearing low for day again. A
PWG of 32 mph at 8:17am, with a low windchill of 24 below at 5:18am.
http://attach5.egroups.com/attach/429973/1010/gs-42=99=429973/10-1-10-147/image=jpeg/snapshot.jpg
Steve Minghini
[posted at 10:07am Wd 12-20-00]
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