Snow Squalls Riding Northerly Winds

Sunrise with stratocumulus and snow flurries. The same air mass that was bringing heavy snow squalls to the lee shores of the Great Lakes brought flurries and light snow to portions of the Upper Midwest. Temperatures were in the lower teens at dawn.

These Stratocumulus were producing snow showers with light accumulations. Most Stratocumulus do not precipitate but if they do it us usually drizzle. In a cold atmosphere with low level moisture we can get quick bursts of mainly snow flurries.

Snow showers are occuring with this cumulus cloud. The streamers can be seen hanging below the cloud and looking lower the white ‘hazy’ sky is snow falling in the cold atmosphere with temperatures in the teens.

More falling snow is visible below the white cloud tops in this photo.