There are indications of another major winter storm early next week. It could be as wild as this one. There is still uncertainty and the storm could move to the east, but current thinking is we may be under the gun. Stay tuned.
Winter storm helped with soil moisture
Snow and ice in the recent storm added up to 11.7 inches at my location. This melted down to 1.91 inches of liquid giving a total for liquid precipitation for the month to date of 3.27.
As of late December, Cincinnati had been taken out of the drought designation. However, last week we were still listed by the drought monitor as abnormally dry and were lagging behind for the month. There’s nothing like moisture laden snow to replenish soil moisture!
Needless to say, local landscapes have been through two years of drought, heat in 2007, Hurricane Ike, and now another damaging ice storm. Plants need good soil moisture but some are very stressed right now.
Ron
Winter Storm Summary
Well, it’s all over except the clean-up, and what a clean up it will be.Â
Snow and ice accumulation varied some around town. At my location it added up to 11.7 inches, including about 1.5 inches of sleet and freezing rain build-up.  Freezing rain build-up on trees and wires here was in excess of .5 inch with limb breakage on a number of trees. 6.3 inches of snow and ice accumulated here today.