Friday with updates

• 8:00 - a friend en route to Utica via Clinton: "traffic's moving at 20 mph; I can hear ice hitting the car."

• 8:30 - someone who'd just driven over Sanger Hill from Oriskany Falls. "It **&#$^#!" (trans. "It's really bad!") "There were two cars off the road!"

• 8:45 - icy stuff pinging on windows.

• 10:57 - lots of wind and some sleet hitting windows but traffic's moving right along on 315. Here's a good map: click on "animate."

• 1:00 - Still sleet mixed with freezing rain but twigs and branches aren't covered, as was feared. Rts. 12 and 20 are just sloppy, while side streets require slow going. Don't try to get anywhere fast!
  

SCHOOL'S CLOSED

Check out all of the closings here:

SCHOOL CLOSINGS

• Today: Snow developing in the morning, mixing with sleet, then changing to freezing rain by noon. Snow and sleet accumulation likely, highest amounts north and east of Utica. Freezing rain changes to plain rain by late afternoon. High: 35
• Tonight: Rain, tapering off to snow showers. Low: 28
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy with light snow showers. High: 33, Low: 20
• Sunday: Partly sunny with a chance of a few flurries. High: 36, Low: 18

It's 24 degrees; no precipitation - yet.

I'll try to keep you updated on conditions as the day progresses.

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Photos from yesterday's waderings.

On Beaver Creek Road.


Holman City Road, near Cedar Lake.

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I was over in that direction taking pictures of the"Bridgewater Flats." That's not so much a place as it is a "thing" or "things," and is described in

Roadside Geology of New York

as glacial varves - "distinctly laminated clays deposited in lakes supplied by glacial meltwater streams, in which the laminations are formed yearly, like tree rings."

Looking westward across the Bridgewater Flats from Babcock Hill.

Driving across the Flats really is just like being in a boat on a big lake.

We have "flats," of course, between here and Deansboro and then there are more next to 12B on the way to Clinton, but the Bridgewater Flats extend for miles!

Here's a site that will give you more in depth information about
"The Allegheny Plateau"
and how it was formed.

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More about ICE and how it's formed
later on!


Travel safely!

and Have a good weekend!