Snow! Finally. But barely measurable.

Driving home from work Friday morning was such a pretty sight along the Merritt I had to stop and take this picture. Looks like a nice park, but its actually from the gas station off the parkway in Greenwich.

Unfortunatley by the time I was home in New York City, there was no snow left in Central Park for my dog to root through. So she is still waiting for her first snow of the season.

Her dilemma is a little like that of some children in southwestern Connecticut. It snowed throughout the region Thursday night leaving a dusting to a half an inch. And when they woke up for school Friday morning, it was lightly snowing again. Unfortunately for them, still NOT a snow day.

We had an interesting conversation Friday morning just before starting the newscast at 5:30. That morning's light snow had not started yet, and we were trying to figure out what to call the snow that had fallen Thursday night. Of course it was the first time the utilities crews sent out the trucks to treat the roadways, and we had video of that. But, could we really call it a measurable snow fall?  In some areas, the snow melted as it touched the ground. In others, like Wilton and Redding, we had reports of up to a half-an-inch accumulating. So, I asked our morning weather guru, Paul Piorek, and he said records go by the Weather Station at Sikorsky airport. He said at that point there was no measurable snow there, meaning ultimately our first snow wouldn't be recorded as having been a snowfall!

But, by later in the morning it started snowing again, leaving another layer. So, finally. More than halfway through January, snow!  It's finally here. Time now for me to start perusing travel sites for my warm weather beach get-away!