Building local snow average for the new year
By ALLAN TINKER
McClusky, North Dakota gets 18 inches of rain, on average, per year. The US average is 38 inches of rain per year. McClusky averages 38 inches of snow per year. The US average is 28 inches of snow per year, according to a U.S. data source. For those that were moving about on Monday this week, that is the number of cumulative inches that fall, not the depth into which the wind blows the snow. On a positive note, it is nice, light, fluffy snow right now, except where traffic has packed it down, there it is slippery. On another positive note, at least for school employees, students and bus drivers, it is Christmas vacation time, so one can ski, or even make angels with ‘gay abandon’. Skating and building a fort may have to wait for a wind or plow to clear the ice of snow or snow or that sticks together better, or worse, depending on which fun one prefers. Those who got up early to start work were helping those who got up earlier and get stuck. Perhaps not intentionally, one would assume, but stuck enough to need help. ND Highway 200 was not the place to be while the wind and snowfall are continuing. I-29 near Grand Forks on the east side of the state was closed for a time during the early night snow but reopened this morning. Snowfall, fell as predicted, on Sunday with strong winds pushing it into banks from the northeast. On Monday, snowfall is predicted to end by evening, with singledigit below zero temps for
the week, and daytime highs in the teens and low twenties.
