Merry Christmas!!

We received one inch of snow yesterday on top of the 2-3 that was still on the ground for an official white Christmas!

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It’s barely official winter and I’ve had enough.  The high today was a whopping 7.4°F.  The windchill never made it above 0°.  The lowest windchill was -18.4°.  We’ve had 2 days this week where the high didn’t even make it into the double digits.  We’ve already had 3 days with the low below 5° and it will be 4 days come tomorrow.  There’s still a 2-3 inches of snow on the ground with more on the way.  I don’t really mind the snow but the cold is killing me.  I feel for the few brave souls that weathered the Chiefs loss today.  One of the 5 coldest Chiefs home games ever and the coldest game the Dolphins have ever played in.  I was at the stadium for one of the coldest, that was many years ago in a playoff game back when the Chiefs were good and I was many years younger.  I can’t say I’d do it now for team that has won 2 games all year.

After the game we headed over to Smithville Lake to see how much ice has formed on it.  There’s a big chunk of the lake that is frozen over but there is still more open water than there is ice.  I took a few pictures and there are a couple below.  Please keep in mind that it was about 3 degrees out so these are shot from inside the H3 without a tripod pointing into a 20mph headwind on both.  Focus isn’t exactly sharp since I was too much of a wuss to drag out the above mentioned tripod and set it up to get a good shot.

This first pic is from the day launch ramp at sailboat cove.  Steam and spray are slightly visible as the wind is howling across the (relatively) warm water.  Note that there is no ice on the main channel.

This second picture is the sun setting over one of the coves that is about half frozen over.

Will post again later in the week as it sounds like there will be a snowfall update before a hopefully white Christmas.

Lastly,  Jack, thanks for the apple pie.  It was awesome!

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We had about 4 inches of snow early this morning into this afternoon.  Nothing major but it really made the drive to work this morning a real pain in the ass.  A normal 45 minute commute took about 2 hours.  Plus it has been brutally cold the last couple days with lows in the single digits and highs in the single digits yesterday and the low teens today.  Wind chills bottomed out at about -15 Monday morning.  More weather is on the way for Thursday with a mix of rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow.  That should make for another fun commute to work.

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We had a quick inch or so of snow Tuesday.  That brings the total for the year up to a whopping 3 or so inches.  The south part of KC got a lot more but we missed out.

Personally, I missed the snow storm(event).  I was in Phoenix for business over the weekend and didn’t get back to KCI until after midnight on Tuesday/Wednesday.  That was quite a shock to the system.  From warm and sunny to bitter cold and windy.  I didn’t have an ice scraper in the car so I had to sit in the cold car until the windshield defrosted.  Such is life, I’m ready to head back to Phoenix for a couple months.

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We had a quick shot of snow late this morning until just after noon.  No more than a 1/4 inch but it did come down fairly hard for a little while.

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