When we left our Littleton farm yesterday morning, an overnight cold front had dropped three inches of fresh, powdery snow along the Front Range. As we drove east across the High Plains, northeasterly winds began to increase, sending streamers of snow across the highway; unfortunately, several trucks were toppled by the gusts.
The snowy landscape and high winds persisted across western Kansas but, by the time we reached WaKeeney, they were replaced by a calm, snowy mist as the storm system had dipped farther to the south. Indeed, eastern Kansas and western Missouri were unscathed by the potent system, safely within the confines of the atmospheric trough.
Today, the winter storm is moving through the Tennessee and Ohio River Valleys, soon to pull in abundant moisture from the Atlantic Ocean. As the central low moves up the Northeast Coast, it is expected to drop prodigious amounts of snow across most of Pennsylvania and New England; high winds will produce blizzard conditions in some areas and a true New England Nor'Easter will unfold.
