We were on the southern edge of the storm and only got a little over an inch/3cm of snow. Flakes began falling slowly late yesterday afternoon and continued until after dark. This was a storm that moved in from the ocean, not down from Canada as most winter storms do.
When I woke this morning at 6:30 the temperature was 21F/-6C and the wind chill 5F/-15C. Now at almost noon it is just below freezing and as you can see the snow has already melted off streets and sidewalks.
However this is the third snowfall since we bought the condo eight years ago. It snowed that month and it snowed in January of 2025 as well as this year. That makes three snowfalls in eight years. The snowfall prior to 2018 was twenty-nine years earlier in 1989. And according to a local TV station this is the first time since 1917-1918 that Hilton Head has had snow in successive years.
We will be back in the 50sF/low teens C on Tuesday, but I don’t like the trend.
