Oh the Diference a Day Makes
Two days ago we had a lot of snow cover here in south-eastern Wisconsin. In fact, the average snow depth was 12 inches. Yesterday we got around an inch of rain and had temps in the low 50′s. Today the snow is about 80% gone. The rivers and creeks are flooding and there is a lot of standing water everywhere.
The satellite pictures from today and Christmas Day, (Our last clear day before today.) really tell the story.
Here’s the Christmas Day image. Though there is some cloud cover, you can still make out how much snow is on the ground.
Now here is today’s image.
It’s pretty amazing how fast the snow melted.
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Comments (6)
Wow, all that snow and now rain. How quickly things can change. Love the satellite shots.
BT
Got to thank you for the link to the satellite images. I got it off of one of your post.
well i guess it’s warming up all over, more dramatically in some places than others.
here in the oc, we had patchy frost on the grass the last couple of mornings but the forcast is for a warming trend.
I love the ability we have now to get photos like that. What is that “small” lake to the west of Lake Michigan? Looks like it was entirely frozen over in the first photo and then ice-free in the next one. That doesn’t seem possible.
That’s Lake Geneva Karl. I don’t think it was frozen, I think it must of been covered by clouds. I just went back and looked at all of the satellite images for December and Lake Geneva isn’t frozen in any of them.
There’s also a lake to the north, Green Lake, that’s not frozen. It’s not in the pictures above. I’m kind of curious as to why these two lake aren’t iced over.
Guess I’ll go do some research.
I think I found the answer. Green Lake is Wisconsin’s deepest lake at 229 feet, Lake Geneva is number two, at 136 feet. That would explain why they are yet to freeze.