Mother Nature serves up seconds
Staff writer
Two weeks after the county was hammered by an icy blizzard, Mother Nature gave the county a little more snow Monday.
Streets and parking lots still had mountains of snow piled up at corners and ridges of snow along curbs, but Monday’s fresh coat of snow concealed ice patches, making them impossible to see for walkers and drivers.
The snow stopped falling around noon, leaving less to clear away from sidewalks.
Monday night brought bone-chilling temperatures as low as -8 degrees.
Despite sunny skies Tuesday with temperatures in the mid-20s and winds gusting up to 22 mph brought wind chill values as low at 17 degrees.
Today through Sunday’s temperatures are forecast to reach the mid-30s to low 40s, with partly sunny to sunny skies.
Monday’s temperatures came close to historical records.
Weather service data list the record low temperature for Jan. 20 as -11 in 1985. Monday’s low temperature, at -8, was only three degrees higher.