"George Patterson" wrote in message
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John Kirksey wrote:

I was working late last night and decided to tune into JFK Tower/Ground
on
liveatc.net. I don't know what it looked like up that way last night,
but it
must have been pretty crappy out.

I'm about 35 miles to the southeast. It started snowing early in the
afternoon
with the temperature around freezing. By 8:00, the temperature was around
20
degrees and the snow had pretty much stopped. With that kind of
temperature
drop, much of the snow was actually tiny ice crystals. By around 4:00, a
crust
had formed on what snow was already on the ground. The wind kept a lot of
the
stuff airborne and the gusts would form clouds of snow.

I think we got it worse up in Boston. In the late afternoon the temperature
dropped about 20 degrees in less than an hour, and the rain we'd been
getting all day froze solid. By 7pm there were 2-3 inches of wet snow on top
of 1/4" of hard ice and of course not a plow or sander in sight. Logan was
shut down for a while.

-cwk.