During the late evening hours of May 1st into the
afternoon hours of May 2nd, a Historic major winter storm plowed through the
area....
Rice Lake smashes an all time state record, it was
the biggest snowfall in May ever on records per The Weather Channel along with
other News Media....We picked up 17 inches of snow as of yesterday
afternoon....We did add to that total some...But for this write we will run with
17 inches......Eau Claire also smashes a record for the top 5 snowiest May on
their record books....
They picked up 8.7 inches of snow....This will rank
as number one now....The last record was set back in May of 2001 where they
picked up 3.3 inches of snow...Ok back to Rice Lake....
We had lots of tree damage throughout Rice Lake,
with power lines being downed, This was also reported throughout Barron County,
along with other parts of Western/Northwestern WI.Main tree damage was done to
pine trees and older oaks and willows....If this would have been a regular
spring, we would have been dealing with more tree damage do to the fact the
trees would have had a good start on their leaves,which would have caught more
snow.....Some trees/ large tree branches did fall on some cars causing damage to
them, even some house damage was reported throughout the area....Lots of people
were without power for sometime throughout Northwestern WI...Still some areas of
this written still without power....
So what took place to give us this Historic snow
storm....Well first off we had a cold front push through the area on Wednesday
this brought down some colder temps..Then we had a slow moving upper level low
pressure dive to the South, With a SFC low pressure also moving through...Both
this features were able to tap into lots of moisture...The weather pattern is in
a blocky pattern....There are like 5 or 6 different cut off lows....But this
winter and spring we have seen this a lot.....The weather pattern really hasn't
changed....Though it did for a few days when were able to get into the 70s,
until this weather pattern breaks down look for colder temps and areas of rain
and snow....Good news is next week looks better....Highs closer to 70.....Maybe
then things will start to look up.....This major snow storm will be talked about for many years to come!!
Here are some pictures I took yesterday....The
video link will be below the pictures....
Here is the link to the video I shot yesterday morning.....
