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Weird Snow this morning????

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This is the weirdest snow I have even tried to move/handle. It is right at freezing. This is a real heavy/wet snow. We have 6-8 inches of the stuff. The snow blower just plugs up with it. Loader bucket just packs full and you have to shake the heck out of it to fall out. A rear blade just compacts it and it will not slide across the moldboard even with it at full angle. Had a drift by the house drive that was two foot deep. I had to back up the grade to get at it. The top bladed off and the rest just compacted to a layer about 6 inches thick. The drive is soft under the snow so I am just going to leave it as it is supposed to be 50 degrees Tuesday.

We had a real strong east wind with this snow. There is a real clear separation line between who got snow and who did not. Dubuque got maybe 1/2 an inch. To the West I know Ceadr Rapids got a fair amount.

They had been calling for rain with this storm. We did not get drop. Glad of that. We do not need ice.
 
You are a couple hours ahead of me on removal, it is still coming down pretty hard here.

We got close to a foot.

I am anticipating it will be like trying to fling a wet bugger off your finger.
 
Here in central KY we have five inches wet heavy snow. We had none when I got up at 7 this morn. Will probably be gone in the morn it is supposed to get up to 36.
 
Here about 20 miles west of Desmoines, it snowed for about four hours but didn't stick. A friend of mine at latimer said they got about a foot.
 
This front is really strange. I took the one Grand Daughter to work in Cascade. It was snowing HARD when I left. Between my house and Cascade the snow quit. I just live 2 miles west, by the time I drove back home it had totally quit snowing.

So since I was already out I cleaned the drive. Only took starting three tractors. LOL The one JD 4450 had the blower in it. So I was just going to blow the drive out. No go, just plugged with slush. Had the rear blade on the JD 5210. No go, the snow just balled up in front of it. Started the one JD 4020 I have here and used the loader on it to push the snow off the lane. Only made about 3-4 "new" divots in the yard/lane. LOL


My brother-in-law, that lives in Ohio, went to Reno to pickup an antique car last week. He ended up coming back through Iowa today. He is driving back I-74. IF you look on a weather map this storm is just about perfectly aligned with I-74 from the Quad Cities to Cinn. He is going to be driving on wet and snowy roads all the way home. I told him to stop and spend the night but he has to be back to work Monday.
 
We have had rain, sleet and heavy snow all day. Seems like it changes every half hour. At on point we had 3 inches of snow/ice mix on the ground. I graded of my drive and now my 4250 looks like I spent a week polishing the tires!
 
I would guess I am on the southern edge of the snow as we only have a out 3" of it. North of Peoria 40 miles was supposed to get up to a foot. Its really wet and blowing hard about 30mph from the east. Not a good day to do anything outside.
 
Brown Swiss I will take some moisture here. I hope the ground is frost free enough for us to get some good out of this system. The ground is not overly wet for this time of year. We may be looking for water this year. It has been dry since early last fall. We started harvest and it got muddy/wet and then quit raining. This snow here is about as much as we have had all winter here. I only cleared the lane a few times all winter.
 
Same kind of snow here. I just got in from continually trying to shake the stuff out of the box scraper. It would stick to the scraper so bad the hydraulics couldn't hardly lift it. In the places where the scraper went over the top. I went back over it and sank the scraper in, it did the job cutting in but then the 4650 with 2000 pounds of rear weights couldn't pull it. We had 1.25" of rain before the snow which helped firm the ground but the melting snow will slop it up again. The rain that is forecast for sun night through Tuesday should help get rid of the snow though.
 
Still some frost in the ground, went a few feet deep this winter! But ya should have thawed enough on top to collect some moisture. The mine sure is not a happy camper, as we are getting several rock falls inside, only going to get worse for the next month, just have to keep an eye out for it. Funny one large rock popped loudly outside and came right out of the side the cliff next to the mine trailer, not a small rock either. LOL
 
Welcome to what we have had here in the NE for the last 3 weeks.
I took this pic a few minutes ago. You can still see every bucket full that I dumped with my Kubota and loader. Couldn't push it, just had to bucket it across the road. Those bucket fulls have been there 2 weeks now, and just starting to melt.
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Brown Swiss I know what your talking about. Friend owned a cabin along the bluffs up at Buena Vista. His cabin was up near the top of the bluffs so he never had any rock falls damage it. I have been there when those rocks "pop" and suddenly fall down the bluff. They sure make a racket. LOL

The one falling at the mine entrance makes you kind of jumpy coming or going. LOL
 
TOO FUNNY... I was just telling SWMBO (as if she cares) that I had the same experience dealing with new snow from yesterday/last nite here in north central ND earlier this afternoon, then I read your post.

"49" DEERE thrower ahead of a "322", was amazing the big swath of snow that was pushed ahead of the blower.
 
We got about 5" just west of Peoria, IL. Didn't think it would plow very good with no frost in the crushed stone so have just driven through it and will let Mother Nature take care of it in a day or so.
 
I am 20 mile due west of Quincy IL, and we never had a flake, and I am not complaining.
 
it has been said the Eskimos have a hundred names for different types of snow.bet they have a name for snow like that,.probably means the same thing that we call it here in southern ind when we see a foot of it on march 20th,. durn stuff is still hanging around on the north slopes
 
This snow blew in from the East too. I hate east winds. That fills some of my sheds with snow. I moved a pen of feeder cattle as their shed had a three foot drift in it. I had an open lot/shed so I moved them. Monday I will clean the entire shed out.

This wet snow is about as hard as a rain on cattle. I am darn glad I do not calve until later. Several fellows have lots of small calves hitting this cold wet snow. That makes for more work and more sick calves.
 
Have had snow like that here in Ohio lots of times. Don't have a blower, was just loader, front and rear blades.
 
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