photo by me

No, not Yahoo! (sung in that silly western voice)…but YAHOO!!!!

It snowed. Not much, mind you. But it snowed. Finally.

One of the cool things about the snow this morning, as I drove into town, was how the wind was blowing it. We are having 30-40 mph winds with 60 mph gusts. I was watching the mountains as I drove along the ice-encrusted roads (yes, I was paying attention to the driving) and I watched a huge wind gust roll down the mountain.

Now, I can hear what you’re thinking. I *watched* a wind gust roll down the mountain? How is that possible? Wind is invisible, right?

If you’ve ever lived in the desert, you know you can watch the wind roll in. It picks up the dust and creates a virtual wall of wind and dust.

Today’s vision was the same thing – but with snow. It was impressive. It had to have been a few hundred feet in height and an extra few hundred in width.

The snow is so light right now (not our typical heavy March snow), that the wind just picked it up and created a wall of wind and snow and rolled right down the mountain.

If I thought I could get it on camera from that distance in that light, you would have had the image. But it was too dark and I was too far away.

It was impressive, though.