Valley spared worst of snow
Snow fell upon Valley City – but not near as much as other places, as the projected Colorado low veered west and spared the city some of the more egregious snowfall that beset Bismarck and Jamestown.
“Valley City got about 5.5-to-6 inches. Our highest total looks like the Devil’s Lake basin where we had 13-and-ahalf inches in Michigan ND,” Nathan Rick, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Forks told the Times-Record. “It was more lucky that the track of the system ended up a little further westward than what models were anticipating. Bismarck got 17-18 inches of snow and Jamestown got somewhere around 16 inches as well. The heavier snow shifted just a little more northwest.”
While we were spared the worst of the precipitation, don’t expect to see sunny skies any time in the near future. At the very least this week is looking to be grim and gray, with light snowfall up until at least the weekend.
“Unfortunately we’re going to be stuck in this pattern for the near-future at least,” Rick said. “Sometime next week… we might see some sunshine by the weekend, but at least for the rest of the week we’re going to be this gray, light snow weather pattern.”
Despite the inclement weather, the city street crew got the roads cleared in a timely manner, and as of Monday the whole city’s had plows gone through and now sanding will begin to try and alleviate icy conditions.
“We’ve been through the whole town, so (all the snow) that we got now is what’s come here last night and this morning,” Clint Klemich, street department superintendent for Valley City, said. “We’re doing our sanding thing now and we’ll see how the next couple days go with the forecasted snow.”
Trash pick-up is also back to its normal hours and schedule and should remain so pending any further serious winter weather.