High Plains Drifter
March 30th, 2009 at 8:44 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
This is a snowdrift in Kansas after the Friday Blizzard. This is typical of what can happen when there is a very strong wind and fluffy snow. You can see all the snow has blown into one massive drift about 8 feet high. Drifts were reported to be up to 14 feet near Dalhart, Texas. You can see that this situation would make it very difficult to get very far in a car, or even maybe to get out of your house! Plows would have a hard time tackling a drift like this. You’d have to call in a front end loader. Friday at one end of Texas there was a blizzard with temps. in the low 20s and at the other end, temperatures hit 100+ in McAllen and Harlingen. This AM, Hutchinson had 7″ of snow on the ground. This PM they hit 56 deg. and there is a severe t-storm watch for the county just east of them.
I think we will get one more BIG snow storm. That is a big snow drift.
what’s funny is they don’t have the v-plows on their graders or trucks to plow through the drifts….like you said they will have to use loaders….the City of Zeeland most likely has more snow removal equipment than an entire count in Texas….
In the UP, the towns of Houghton and Hancock has more snow removal equipment than Kent or Ottawa Counties……
you can have the snow for this year, lets see wind and sun…..
It was cold down in Green Bay when I went down there the other day. It only made 34 degrees for a high down there the other day and they got an inch of snow that night but it’s all gone now. Winter sure does not want to let go this year. Usually down in GB its 50 degrees this time of year. Their springs are as warm as Grand Rapids sometimes. Tom Skilling of WGN said snowstorm next sunday possible for the midwest again. Man this winter is the harshest winter I have seen in a long time for the entire midwest. Bismarch North Dakota I believe went over 100 inches of snow for the season! Green Bay has had their 3rd snowiest winter on record there. Escanaba has near 80 inches for the season in the U.P. while Marquette comes in at 223 inches.
down in green bay? green bay is northwest of grand rapids so should be colder and snowier. why all the whining about a little cold. it’s the best time of the year. before long all these same whiners will be sobbing about the heat.