It just keeps on coming...and coming...and coming...

This is going to be a winter we will remember for awhile. The cold and snow just don't seem to want to go away. We will warm up a bit later this week and that should melt a lot of the snow. Combine that with over half an inch of rain on Thursday and flooding will be or next concern.

COLD

I went back through the record book this morning. So far this winter we have had ten days where the temperature has dropped below ZERO. Our coldest was -11 on January 7th. To find anything even close to this I had to search back to the winter of 2008-2009. That winter we had five days below ZERO with the coldest being -14 on the overnight of January 16/17, 2009.

Here's a breakdown of the past six winters:

Winter             Days of ZERO or below

2013-14               10 (as of 2/17)
2012-13                 0
2011-12                 1 (ZERO on 1/20)
2010-11                 2
2009-10                 0
2008-09                 5

SNOW

The snow will continue tonight. A storm off to our southwest will move up through Ohio overnight and dump around 4 inches locally by morning. It's like...gee...only 4 inches?  No big deal. We are quite used to this stuff now aren't we. The map below shows where the bulk of the snow will fall tonight.

(Map from www.accuweather.com)