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Partly cloudy skies in the morning will give way to cloudy skies during the afternoon. High around 15F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph..
Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight. Very cold. Low around 10F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: February 3, 2023 @ 1:00 am
Partly cloudy skies in the morning will give way to cloudy skies during the afternoon. High around 15F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph..
Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight. Very cold. Low around 10F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Updated: February 3, 2023 @ 1:00 am
Snow is expected Wednesday, with the National Weather Service predicting as much as 5 inches of the white stuff falling on the Williams County area.
And that’s just fine for William County Engineer Todd Roth. He has a barnfull of salt on hand with more on the way — and nowhere to put it.
In fact, Sunday’s snowfall in the county — estimated at anywhere from 1-3 inches depending on exact location — was the first time this winter season the county used any salt at all on the county’s 400+ miles of roadway and 300 bridges.
It’s a pretty unusual situation, he noted after the county commissioner meeting Monday.
“We didn’t use any (during the Christmas weekend). It was too cold and too windy,” Roth said of the Arctic cold front that swept through the region Dec. 23-24. That storm resulted in single-digit temperatures and wind gusts reaching 50 to 60 mph, meaning any salt would have just been blown away. And besides, salt doesn’t work very well with temperatures below 20 degrees.
And since there’s been almost no other snow incidents this season, Roth is hoping for a decent snow Wednesday. — 3 to 5 inches would be fine, he said with a grin Monday.
“We used about 134 tons of salt and sand (mixture) Sunday,” a minimum amount that he said amounts to about one single pass around the county for the county’s snowplows.
The county’s salt barn holds 1,200 tons, so his barn is still full and he’s contracted to receive another 1,800 tons soon. “I have nowhere to put it,” he said, adding that in some year’s past, his barn would be empty by now, and he would be anxiously awaiting a new shipment.
Roth did note, though, that at the end of last year, county commissioners committed to pay for a new, bigger county salt barn, perhaps as early as later this year.
The NWS predicts that Wednesday’ snowfall will be followed by a cloudy Thursday with lows in the mid-teens. Snow returns Friday, though the NWS estimates less than one inch of accumulation, but 1-3 inches could fall again on Sunday.
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