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Thanks to Sandy Gordon for passing along this shot taken at Grass Lake in far northern Lake County near Antioch on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. The ice is breaking up and the snow is melting. Sandy commented that is was a "beautiful day for getting out with with nature!"

Thanks to Sarah Franzman of Hebron, Indiana for passing along this great shot of a colorful sunset taken Thursday evening.

Thanks to ex-Chicagoan Gary Wojton, now living in the Phoenix area for passing along this photo of a halo around the sun as the sun's rays were reflected and refracted by the ice crystals in the cirrus clouds. 

Thanks to our frequent blog contributor Mark Vogan who passed along this shots of a snowbound Scotland. The photos were taken after a 36 hour period of heavy windblown snow. Winds of gale force piled the snow into drifts 2-5 feet high and even up to 10 feet in some areas.

Mark notes that while some areas got as much as 14 inches, areas as close as 15 minutes away got no snow at all with an elevation difference of less than 1,000 feet. Many areas in Scotland above 1500 feet have received as much as 2 feet of snow from this storm with severe blowing and drifting.

  

Photos by Mark Vogan

More shots of snow-covered New York City taken in and above Times Square.

 

Photos by Keith Danish

 

 

Thanks to Lindsey Lullo for passing along these photos of the eastern snowstorm that has brought at least a foot to the Stroudsburg area in eastern Pennsylvania.

Photos by Lindsey Lullo

New York City is in the midst of a major snowstorm that had dropped 21 inches of snow on the city through late Friday afternoon. Thanks to Keith Danish for passing along this photo taken near 7th Avenue and 15th Street.

Photo by Keith Danish

Another shot in the same location taken several hours later

Photo by Nat Rahav

Last night's storm dropped snow with the intensity of the "Blizzard of Short Duration" that struck Chicago almost 43 years to the date on February 23, 1967. That storm had much stronger winds and was not a result of lake effect. However, it dropped the visibliity to near zero, deposited similar amounts of snow, crippled traffic and was also accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Thanks to Matt Piechota who sent this picture taken near Naperville and Butterfield roads about 8:10 p.m. this evening. The snow was falling at the rate of two inches an hour.

Photo by Matt Piechota

Thanks to Steve Newlin of Gurnee for passing along this photo taken during the height of tonight's snowstorm. The area received upwards of 6 inches of snow.

 

Photo by Steve Newlin