Snow Flying at Morning

View from driveway at the start of Nemo,
Friday, 2/8 at 10:47 am

Same view, next day, Sat. 2/9 at 7:30 am
(blowing snow on the left)

Power still on. That's the first, really good news to report this morning. And it looks like just about all of Western Massachusetts was spared the worst of this storm and the accompanying power outages. But we still have plenty of weather to talk about.

In N. Amherst, our outdoor sensor is reading 19.5 degrees, the sustained winds (best as I can tell from my vantage point) are about 18-20 mph, with gusts of 30-40 mph, and we've got two feet of snow on the ground. Except for the wind, one might say it's snowing lightly, but between the periodic, ice pellet-driving gusts and cold temperatures there's nothing "light" about how it feels outside. Even though we were clearing snow from the doorways until midnight (so I fully expected them to be clear enough to walk through this morning), there is so much snow blocking the entrance that I can only partially open the door, and even that only by pushing, hard, against the wall of snow. I'm considering hauling out the snowshoes to take a walk, but with the conditions this unpleasant, I may just stay awhile and enjoy the view from inside.