First Snow

Ellen excitingly said it snowed last night before I had the chance to poke my head outside.  And indeed there was a light skift (skift:  an old southern slag word for a light dusting of snow - 1/4 inch or less). 

Cyndee O'Quinn of Channel 9  ABC Weather on December 3 researched the Cincinnati statistics: 

The average date of the first measurable snowfall is Nov 7th.  The records were 10/11/1925 for the earliest; 1/2/1983 for the latest with 0.10";

Last year, during the 2008-09 winter, Cincinnati saw a total of 23.0"
of snow.  Most of it fell within a week and a half during the end of
January.  Multiple snowfalls from January 25-30 measured 11.5" followed
by an additional 5.5" of snow on February 3-4. 

Normal
snowfall for Cincinnati is 23.6"  Last year's amount was close to
normal, while the 2007-08 season was slightly above at 26.2" of snow. 
We saw almost half of the yearly snowfall occur in 2007-08 during
one snowstorm.  The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International
Airport received 10.7" on March 7-8, 2008 with outlying areas measuring
over a foot of snow.  

Cincinnati has seen some snowy years and
the winter of 1977-78 stands out not only as one of the coldest but the
snowiest.  During this period, Cincinnati received over 4 feet of snow
with a total of 53.9".

Cincinnati's lowest snowfall total occurred during the winter of 1918-19, when only 1.2" was reported.

So why would I care about all this?  Well as the budget guru/ Trustee of the Armstrong United Methodist Church, I have to predict the budget for snow removal at the Church.  And as you might guess, I have been wrong two years in a row! 

So it follows -  "The weather is like the government, always in the wrong"  Jerome K. Jerome