Today on the Allegheny River

I would say the weather people hit this forecast on the head. They said it would be somewhere between 2-5 inches with increasingly cold winds and temps.

Their only miss was that they were predicting that it would be the big storm that plowed through Minneapolis and Chicago. This was the storm that collapsed the Metrodome roof. Instead we got a nice burst of Lake Effect snows which tend to be lighter and fluffier than the mad storms that bring the northern cold and the southern or western rain clouds.

On the River, it created a beautiful picture where the flakes hung suspended in the air before landing gently on the ground or on the surface.

Later in the day, the geese organized a conga line as they sought a protected area for the night winds

The River loves the wind. The currents seem to shift to go up River as the wind pushes in from the west. Little whitecaps show up as the wind approaches 20 mph or so. The snow is blowing horizontally this morning and with the good grace we’ve had, this storm will only bring us 4-6 inches. If we’d had this wind last weekend, drifts would’ve been 20 feet high.

The doves are stoic and stand guard to their food.