We had two brief intense snow showers during the day today.
The first was actually an intense downpour of graupel (snow pellets), which were mostly about 1/8" (3mm) in diamter. This happened around 12:15PM and lasted maybe 3 minutes. Visibility during this event was down to about 1/4 mile.
The second was near a near white-out, with visibility almost down to 1/10 mile ... I could barely see the Lincoln Tower less than two blocks away. This was regular snow, and it left perhaps as much as 0.2" of snow in 3-5 minutes.
The rest of the day had periods of light snow and/or graupel; and we almost had a break in the clouds around 1PM ... but couldn't quite pull it off.
We've had more snow showers this evening, and it is now nearly 30 degrees cooler than it was 34 hours ago -- Sunday's high was 52.2 at 3:06PM, at 1:06AM (Tuesday), it is 23.2.
