Weather in Indiana

People have always said that if you don't like the weather in Indiana, you should stick around for a few days because it's bound to change.  Yesterday, the saying should have gone something like this: If you don't like the weather in Indiana today, stick around for a few "hours" because it will surely change.

The morning started out with rain, rain, and more rain. Flood warnings were posted all around us. After lunch, the snow started to fall and several in my office had the true Christmas spirit and loved the snowglobe effect taking place right outside our window. The Scrooges of the bunch were Bah Humbugging all over the place.  By the time I left the building at 5, the parking lot was a big slushly mess.

Of course, I wasn't prepared and did not have an ice scraper, but I love the snow and dislike "November rain" where the cold chills you to the bone so I was still happy. Even though the wind was blowing fiercely and my pony tail was standing straight out, I was still all smiles!

It took me 2 hours to drive home from the University instead of the normal 35 minutes.  I counted 9 cars in the ditch between work and Converse. I expect these people were just driving too fast for the conditions.

The biggest snows came in the northeast part of the state, as you can see from the map below. Power lines were down and lights were out in many of the hardest hit areas. Our lights flickered and went off a couple of times for just a minute or so. Daylen was scared since his nightlight kept flickering so I took him a battery operated light and unplugged his nightlight, and all was well. Many homes in Miami County lost their power since the snow was wet and heavy, but we were fine.
The cold upper level low pressure system produced convective-type precipitation, such as you often see in spring and summer, with highly variable amounts and thunder and lightning in some spots. It was strange on the drive home with the lightning all around me as I drove.  I never did see bolts since there was so much cloud cover, and it reminded me of heat lightning since there really wasn't any sound to it.

 Peru officially got 10 inches of new snow yesterday.  I expect that we weren't too far behind.