Finger on the Weather

A look at the Kansas Department of Transportation’s map of road conditions shows that most major thoroughfares in the state are mostly or completely snowpacked this morning.

That translates into travel challenges.

Forecasts show that there won’t be much opportunity at all for melting before freezing rain arrives Thursday morning to glaze southern and central sectors of Kansas.

This winter’s starting to resemble last year’s version, when wintry precipitation cloaked Wichita and the surrounding area every few days. That got old pretty fast for folks who had become accustomed to the milder winters of the previous decade.

Perhaps those were merely aberrations, instead of a “new normal.”

Hunker down: winter’s not even officially here until next Monday.