No snow on the ground before today. Two to three inches of snow was forecast for today. No snow when I fed hay to the cattle this morning. I finished by 9 am and I could see potential snow clouds to the south and west. Instead of waiting until later to ride my bicycle I decided to ride now before the snow fell. The ride was going well and no snow fell yet so I decided to ride a little further and do a loop.
It started to snow lightly. No problem. I'll keep riding the loop and not backtrack. Then it started to snow harder. I had 4 miles left to ride. Then the wind direction suddenly changed so I now had a headwind. It started to snow harder and harder... and harder. The air was so thick with snow falling I couldn't see far off. The wind picked up and was blowing really strong. I had to shift to a slower gear to keep moving along. I had to put my head down to try to keep snow out of my eyes. The snow was piling up quickly and deeply on the road.
I turned and now had the wind at my side and half my face was getting cold. After a mile and a half I turned again and then had the wind at my back the rest of the way home. The snow was getting deep on the road and there was a track or two from the few vehicles on the road and I tried to ride in one of the wheel tracks to make it easier to ride.
Once I got home I was covered in snow from head to foot. I had ridden 13 miles, four of them in heavy snow.
It had snowed like this from the snow squall for about an hour and a half before it quit snowing and the wind quit blowing.
We have quite a few inches of snow on the ground. More than 3 inches. It will be a white Christmas this year.
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