The Christmas tree and lights soldier on during the storm.
The weather folks around here talk about two types of typical Winter storms, the "Nor'easter" (see previous post) and the "Alberta Clipper". An Alberta Clipper is a fast moving storm system with very cold air but very little moisture that zips out of Alberta, Canada and right across our region. Usually they move fast, bring only 3 or 4 inches of snow, and drop the temperature by about 10 degrees. I mean, they are from Canada after all; how could they not bring cold? I'm not sure whether the "clipper" part of the name comes from the idea of "getting clipped" as in tangentially hit or from the old clipper ships which moved very fast just like these storm systems. In any case, for the last 10 hours we've had an "Alberta Clipper" and an old-fashioned "Nor'easter" meet head-on right over our house. (Hence the title of this post.) That means lots of cold air from Canada running headlong into lots of warm moist air from down South. The result, again, lots and lots of fluffy snow. 12" so far and no let-up in sight. The bad news is that it's projected to snow continuously until 4:00 p.m. Monday. The good news? The last 12 hours of that will be only "light snow".
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Van - I love your picture of the lights in the snow. It's magical.
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