High Plains Drifter

1.5 to 2 inches of slushy accumulation so far.  Despite how heavy the snow has been falling at times this morning, the accumulation has not been all that impressive, particularly due to the warm ground and indirect insolation from the fairly high early-mid April sun angle.  It’s just tough to accumulate snow rapidly this time of year unless it is really coming down with like 35 dBZ radar echoes.  If it was 5 to 8 degrees colder, we’d probably be at around 4 or 5 inches of snow.  It’s been stuck at 34F degrees the whole time so far, which is really cutting down on the accumulation potential.  Snowfall-liquid ratio is probably 8:1 or so.  0.31" of precipitation has fallen since it has changed over to snow according to the North Platte ASOS… that equates to roughly a 6 or 7 to 1 ratio.  Pretty weak.