- First sign of frozen precip – some pretty good sleet here in #grantpark #atlanta. Looking forward to actual snowflakes #snow! #
- Big wet snowflakes now falling Grant Park. I could see accumulation if the temp continues to fall… #
- now sticking to not only grass and raised surfaces, but on the streets as well. atlanta, go ahead and start freaking out. #
- Thundersnow in Atlanta in March?!? #snowpocalypse2009 #
- Photowalking in the snow, that is if Sam allws me too. http://twitpic.com/1s2id #
- forgot how eerie it is to hear thunder dampened by the effect of snow. only my third time since college today. #thundersnow #atlsnow #
- methinks the blizzard of 2009 is over for grant park. temp has risen, most precip now slushy mix. bummer. #atlsnow #
Daily Archives: March 1, 2009
sunset on a snowstorm
sunset on an icy grant park, originally uploaded by jetrotz.
As soon as it came, it seems it was gone. The winds blew the last of our March snowstorm out of town just before sunset, illuminated the icy rail of our back deck.
Monkey bread on a snowy afternoon
Thundersnow in Atlanta
I think it’s been some twenty years since I actually experienced that rare phenonmenon known as ‘thundersnow.’ But that’s just what we had today in Atlanta. Aside from it being March, and that we haven’t had an accumulating snowfall in at least four+ years, the thundersnow was icing on the cake. It’s so eerie the way the sound is muffled by the thick, heavy snow. I’ll never forget a nighttime storm in Boston years ago when I was out photowalking, and saw lightning illuminating the inside of the snow clouds. Amazing. Don’t expect this storm to have enough legs to make it to the evening hours here – it reportedly is going to even dust my hometown of Savannah after midnight tonight. Craziness.
Photos above are from a brief walk around Grant Park with Sam this afternoon. Both his shoes and my own were quickly soaked through from the copious amounts of slushy mix on the ground. Sam (and dad) enjoyed it immensely.
