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	December 30th through January 5th, 2020

Last week started with bright sun and seasonal temperatures. The latter would extend through the week. The former would not.

Lake Lucerne's ice was covered by 2 snow events last week. The first resulted in 5.5 inches, the second 3.5 inches. That's close to 9 inches for the week. Oddly enough, it didn't seem all that snowy.

The snow coupled with warmer temperatures produced some impressive snow/ice curls that cling to the roof of the bar. They make quite a thump when they fall.

The roads around the lake have not had exposed pavement for a while now. Last week's nine inches did not help.

Knott Lane is worse. There's a base of ice about 4 inches thick with a few inches of snow on top of that. It's passable, but no running.

<b>Squirrel!</b>

Sleeping vehicles have a nice coat of white but due to a few melting events, they are still exposed enough to distinguish them from random lumps in the snow..

We can think of at least a dozen words for snow. In addition to the four letter word itself, there's hail, sleet, ice, flurry, slush, snowflake, glacier, pack, powder, crud, and crust. Each type of snow comes with its own special way to traverse it on foot. Last week was filled with snow, some slush, and occasionally under all that was an ice subsurface. Amazingly, as long as you were careful, walking wasn't that bad. There was not much running. With each type of snow also comes a word or phrase that best describes quickly crossing its surface. Fall, face plant, digger, suddenly smelling the ground, wipe out or face wash just to name a few.<br><br><br>-Nemo: No face plant yet, but the year is young.

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