Snow 2012

This winter is much milder than last.  If you look at my post for February 2, 2011, you'll see what I mean.  While the snow shown in that post was beautiful, it was very cold.  In fact, last winter Oklahoma recorded the lowest temperature ever on record.  It was -27 degrees here, but it was colder than that other places in the state.

However, we did have a cold front come through a couple of days ago that dropped the temperature dramatically from the mild winter temperatures we had been experiencing.  And, it even brought a little snow.   I took the following picture while I was outside this afternoon.

I think it is interesting how the snow has melted everywhere the sun touched it.  However, the snow in this picture is on the north side of our shop building where the ground was shaded all day.  So, it left a perfectly straight line that marks where the shaded ended.

I don't expect it to stay very cold.  From the looks of things, we are in for more mild weather (which is good), but there is also no rain in the forecast either (which is bad).  There is a very informative website, www.mesonet.org , that gives a wealth of information about Oklahoma weather.  It shows that we are still very far below normal in precipitation in most areas of the state.  Even after the nice rains that we had last fall, we need a lot more to replenish the ground water and bring us back to normal.