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Had a snow squall come through yesterday evening. It was the first time the Utah weather service has issued a Snow Squall Warning over the phone alert system, and boy were they ever right to do so! That thing hit with incredible ferocity. Imagine the impact of a rapid thunderstorm rain front, but with snow. Huge flakes zinging horizontally in a whiteout. Too windy to accumulate much, but boy howdy was it heavy coming down. Temps abruptly dropped 20 degrees, too.
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I got that yesterday and had never seen that alert on my phone. It got real interesting around here for awhile. Glad I wasn’t out driving around in it.
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I told my wife the same thing last night Rocky- yet down here in Sandy it was really nothing. Up your way sure can get raunchy and fast, ha! Glad you and yours are OK Pard...
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prob didn't slow the drivers down much on I 15........
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We got right at 4 inches in just over an hour in Draper last night, complete chit show driving home from work last night.
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For what we didn’t get Christmas Eve and Christmas Day it sure has made up for it in the last two days.
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Nope, probably not. We traditionally go visit our Salt Lake City daughter on Boxing Day. This year, wife and I left the house at noon with bare streets. By the time we got to I-15 only five miles away, the lanes were coated with ice and there was a direct cross wind of at least 25 mph. Could probably have crawled the 50 miles to her house, but my better sense said that the drive back home again would be more sporty than I wanted to tackle. I made it to the second exit before going back home. And yes, there were some drivers still blasting along at 70+.
That storm front wasn't nearly as violent as last night's squall.
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They got some wind up in Shoshone, daughter says her place is closer to Pocatello than it was.
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Yeah truly zero visibility on the east bench of slc. I've been in blizzards in CO and UT but this for a short time was the least visibility in a snow storm I've ever seen. If you were driving you would have to stop so this warning is pretty cool.
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Here’s what it looked like just before it hit our place.
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WOW. Great picture by the way.
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Here in the north end of Cache valley we had pretty stout southwest wind all day and then it spun towards the north and dumped 4-6 inches of powder. The worst visibility I have ever experienced has been in Sardine canyon on a few occasions, the only thing I could see was the divider/barrier using only my fog lights to be able to see it. It cracks me up when people move here and ask "if it's so bad, why don't they close it" my answer is; this is Utah, if you want to give it a go they'll let you.
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Here’s what it looked like just before it hit our place. Great photo!! I never had a "snow squall" alert on the phone but I did have a tornado alert one time while dove hunting. There were 3 of us and we all got the alert at the same time. I looked to my left just in time to see a tornado drop out of the clouds towards the ground and lift back up. The storm was heading in our direction. We made it to cover and the tornado never touched down again.
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they have become more protectionist around here lately. the last major storm they canceled school for a couple weeks ago only snowed about 6 inches. ie an average storm in an average winter. then this snow squall thing. you could see the thing coming from miles away. its like duh that thing looks serious, try to get where you are going quickly if you can. I thought it was overhyped.
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We got our first snow squall alert three or four days ago. Mine and my wife's phone in stereo at 3:30am. Wasn't amused.
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We were living in our camper in Evanston, Wyoming, while visiting relatives since last Wednesday! As of last evening around 18:30 hrs. my wife had received 2 of those warnings on her cell phone! We had never heard of such! Kinda nice if you needed to prepare for it.
We left this morning headed for home.....it appeared that we had about about a 24 hour window of nice weather to tow our camper home! memtb
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I was in utah county for the “Squall”. I hope it was a lot worse than what I saw. We got the warning too. I’ve seen worse conditions in a snow globe. 😀
I thought it was good. It’s the only time I’ve passed Utahns on I-15. Usually I’m going 80 and still getting passed by 75% of them. Those folks finally slowed down.
I don’t think our school would have canceled recess for that.
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Here’s what it looked like just before it hit our place. Very Cool Pic! Thanks!
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I was in utah county for the “Squall”. I hope it was a lot worse than what I saw. We got the warning too. I’ve seen worse conditions in a snow globe. 😀
I thought it was good. It’s the only time I’ve passed Utahns on I-15. Usually I’m going 80 and still getting passed by 75% of them. Those folks finally slowed down.
I don’t think our school would have canceled recess for that.
😆 UHP has written a record number of 100+ mph tickets this year We have no 100 mph roads in Utah Driving I-15 through the Wasatch Front on a daily basis is a risky commute Some people are fuggin crazy..... https://kutv.com/news/local/uhp-119...rs-in-4-days-as-speeding-trend-continues
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