Last night the weathermen were pretty sure we could expect about 3" on the ground by this afternoon. Before we went to bed last night around 11:45 pm I looked out a window that has just the right lighting to dramatically catch any snow flakes. Nothing showed.
At about 6 am I waked and decided to check out the same window. Sure enough big wet flakes were drifting lazily down and were busy covering whatever they touched. It was beautiful and the temperature was just a tad below freezing. Lib and I got up around 8 am to start our day and we estimated there was a little more than 3" on the ground and exposed surfaces. l hope to add a short video taken through our kitchen window.
When I was a child of 8 years in Salem, Virginia snow was often on the ground by the end of November. For our adult years Lib and I expected some significant snows during each winter when I taught Strings at Patrick Henry high school in Roanoke. A few winters we had debilitating DEEP ones! Then after we retired in the early 2000's the weather slowly began to change. There was talk about an incremental rise in temperatures. The expectations of a "White Christmas' began to fade expecially after moving to Midlothian, Va near Richmond.
Snows often occurred in mid to late January. Temperatures could sometimes get cold, one winter I recorded a low of 2 degrees! but that was sort of an anomaly. We had a cold snap in November this year and I sort of suspect we may have an unusually cold winter this 2026, Not sure the weather scientists have a strong grip on what our sun is capable of, especially its cyclical behavior.
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