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Snow sleet rain and thunder and now wind. Not loving that part

Wow! It looks like heavy snow is falling just east of the Texas panhandle as I type. No precipitation in my forecast until rain next Monday. We could use some and my garlic could use some since it is happily growing in our spring-like temps.

Woohoo! I can finally winter sow my ready-to-seed milk jugs!

Kim, Mark this week on your calendar as the week you got to experience summer and winter in the very same week. The wind didn't hit here until around 4 or 5 pm, and then it blew through like a freight train. The wind chill sure did get worse after the wind arrived.

Lone Jack, I saw a photo of the OK Mesonet station at Cheyenne somewhere today, maybe on Facebook, and the ground was covered in that white stuff called snow. All I could think to myself was "better there than here" (with apologies to everyone in Cheyenne who didn't want snow today any more than I want it). This sure is a winter with very inconsistent weather.

At our house, our high temperature today was 44, compared to our high temperature last Saturday of 88. I have to admit that I liked the 88 degree day better than this 44 degree one.

Bon, Have at it! Just put them where the wicked wind won't blow them away. March and its strong winds are right around the corner!

Dawn

The residents around Cheyenne are a resiliant bunch! They will take moisture anyway they can get it!

Last fall was the first time I've seen the Washita River flowing in 4 or 5 years. My son and I got a kick out of our rancher friend feeding dog food to his 'pet' gar by one of his crossings!

I was just grateful for rain...no matter how cold it was!

I did not know thunder snow was a real thing. Kinda funny

Bruce, That's so true! When you live in a dry place like Cheyenne, moisture is moisture.

I know it was good to see the Washita River flow, and I felt the same way about the Red River, at first, in 2015, right up until the 3rd or 4th time it flooded in that year. After that, it got old, especially for folks along the river who had their property go under water repeatedly. Some folks near us lost two old family homes that had sat there for decades and decades. No one was living in those houses, as far as I know, but it was sad for the family's history to wash down river. Then when we got the flooding of the Red again in 2016, it sort of got ridiculous. Prior to 2015, it had flooded like that 3 separate times, many years apart, and then suddenly we had more floods in each of those two years than in prior history. We're kinda over it now and are hoping the Red River goes back to being a slow, lazy river in the summer of 2017 instead of a wildly raging one. Two consecutive flooding years was unprecedented and a third one would be unwelcome at this point. I wish rainfall here would fall in the right amounts---just the amounts needed. Instead, rainfall seems to only come in two amounts----too much or too little.

Kim, I love thunder snow. I think the first time I ever experienced it was in 2004, and what I remember was that Tim's dad had taken a sudden turn for the worse, health-wise, and he was jumping in the car and hurrying off to the airport in thundersnow at virtually a moment's notice, trying to get on a plane to see his dad before it was too late. I was at the vet with a sick animal when the thundersnow hit, and the vet and I were trying to get me out of there ASAP so I could make it home with our pet before the roads got too bad. Even in the midst of all that craziness that day, I was in awe of the thundersnow. Since then, we've had quite a bit of thundersnow and thundersleet---certainly not every year, but maybe we have it at least once every second or third year, and sometimes we have it multiple times in a given year. I always stop what I am doing and watch/listen to the thundersnow/thundersleet, of course from the safety of the porch because I wouldn't want to be hit by lightning while doing so.

Dawn

I think the first time I experienced thunder snow was back in the early 70s when we lived in the some of the more southern mountains of New Mexico. Let's just say the sense of urgency to get to a lower elevation is real!

There's not a lot in nature I truly fear, but there are a few thing I have serious respect for!

I agree. I will break some weather rules, but I have Dr. Forbes' thunder and lightning rules embedded in my brain and I obey them. Like, the minute I hear thunder, I hear Dr. Forbes on TWC saying "When thunder roars, go indoors", so I do it! I'd prefer to never be struck by lightning if I can avoid it.