Saturday, March 8, 2008

3/8 - 9:30am - It's not done yet!

Just amazing... 8 inches at my house right now with some areas of Jefferson County reporting up to a foot. It's still snowing really hard, and we're expected to receive another 2-3 inches this morning.

Many counties in S. Indiana are under a state of emergency right now and asking residents not to even go out.

What caused all of this was a classic case of a banding snowstorm last night. What happens is that thunderstorms from down south drift north in bands and then start producing snow when they hit the cold air, producing thunder snow (which we had a lot of last night). We've just been slammed by band after band since the first one came through at 11:30pm last night.

We're on the tail end of it now, so it should stop at around 11am unless any new bands form. This is already as bad as Dec. 2004 in Louisville, and we're not done yet!

1 comment:

MTWC said...

I'm loving this Southern Snowstorm! 4 inches at my place in Nashville, TN. Nearly a foot of snow fell at the Tennessee River west of town with 2-3 foot snow drifts!
-Clay in Nashville