First snow of 2025. Central Indiana.

[NEO 317]

I flew the NEO when the winter storm was arriving and then the following day.

The innocent single Snowflake is pretty, but when they gang up on ya', there's plenty of shoveling ahead.

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[RcHawks]

We got 12 inches here, plus the drifts.
Correction turns out it was 16 inches.

 

[ryguy80]

Further NW here in Wisconsin, there’s green grass! Taken from a Neo on my front porch.

 

[GFields]

brrrrr
We actually got snow here too. I'll have to try to find a photo

 

[Droning on and on...]

Further NW here in Wisconsin, there’s green grass! Taken from a Neo on my front porch.View attachment 1133

Yeah, but there's a ginormous blizzard blowing in from the left there, so run! Run like the wind!

 

[NeoNeo]

Total snowfall so far. 166cm, but only 50cm on the ground. Less at Lake level. 1/2 of old (2000s) normal. Which was 1/2 of pre-2000 normal. Too many warm days and rain. Lake Effect snow and Lake Effect warmth. Coldest nights of the year this past week, but 10 to 15F warmer than Minneapolis/St.Paul 3 degrees latitude S of here.

Awoke to a nice powder day last Saturday. Attached image. NWS forecasted only 4inches/10cm. 12"/30cm and still snowing when I left to the ski area. Ultra light powder. Easy to drive through if you have 4x4 and ground clearance. Nothing shuts down up here. Just another winter day. It more or less lightly snowing until late last night. Today -5C/23F, blue sky, zero wind. But Neo crashing into the new snow would have been a pain to find. Years ago lost a small quad in the snow. View was solid white. No help in locating. Found it next Spring by sheer luck. Rain forecasted next Monday/Tuesday. 40sF. Not good.

 

[RcHawks]

We've gotten snow in the last few days, not to bad compared to the last one. Sixteen inches last time and we have maybe four or five inches in the lastest round, but it was and is the windchill that's so bad. Three days ago windchill was -30 degrees F.

 

[NeoNeo]

The ridge and "mountains" trap the Lake Effect warmth. Inland side the temperatures were way too cold. Actual air temps way below -20C/-4F. Windchill is painful. Will take a sunny, zero wind, and 0F over a -30F windchill any day. This time of year the radiant warmth of sun is relatively intense. -8C/+18F @ 0929 and the snow is melting and dripping off the S facing roof.

For me still too cold to fly outdoors even if I had a tx glove box. Sunny, minimal breeze, and warmer than -2C is my limit. I'm a wimp.

Safe ice actually has formed on the bays and coves this year. First time since ???? Ice fishing people using their ATVs and snowmobiles a good mile or two out. Should be nice Spring on the ice flying conditions. Ice pressure ridges starting to form.