Below is the forecast for the event and then you will see the “summary” props to Gary Brener who is our private forecaster this season and is a local guy and not very well known but pretty accurate.
Winter Storm Warning through 6 AM Thursday
Snow is expected to arrive about noon on the Kansas side spreading over the entire area by early afternoon.
noon- 6 PM 2.1"
6 PM-midnight 4.1" [heavy snow, nearly 1" per hour]
midnite-6 AM 1.0"
Widespread 5-7" totals.
Heaviest snow is now expected from downtown towards Clinton, 6-8"
The actually SUMMARY
Rates:
1-3 PM .45" [.15" per hour]
3-6 1.40" [ nearly a 1/2" per hour]
6-9 2.25 [ 3/4" per hour]---HEAVIEST SNOW
9-M 2.10 [ about 3/4" per hour]
M-3A .54 [.18 per hour]
3-6 .39 [.13 per hour]
Average snow totals: 7.13"
On some of your invoices you will see that we did a refreeze on 1/21 early am, then this band of snow was predicted to come and give us and 1” of snow. So even though we spread salt earlier and on some sites spot treated, if we spot treated we went back and did a full spread. We have discounted some invoices where applicable.
Here was the result of the 1/21 snow that really never occurred but regardless the ground and air temp validated the treatment, see below.
Most of the scattered snow showers this morning have clipped on through the area and some are expected to wrap back around later this afternoon will less than 1" on average.
10 AM....air 17', ground 25'
current....air 21', ground 27'
