Ice Ice Baby The Remix

When we returned to St Louis after our Christmas vacation to the UK, the weather had been very mild with several record-breaking warm temperatures across most of the Midwest and Eastern U.S. & Canada. The last thing we were expecting was another ice storm, but the warm weather didn’t last & a cold front from the Artic sagged across most of North America, resulting in very cold temperatures. A deep trough in the jet stream favored a more active weather pattern & waves of low pressure started to develop over the Gulf of Mexico.

There were a number of waves to this winter storm, with about 1-2 inches of ice being deposited on everything around St Louis, although this time we didn’t get any snow. Similarly to the last ice storm there were a number of downed power lines & at the peak of the storm, a total of 330,000 Ameren UE customers in Missouri were without power. We were really lucky again as our power stayed on throughout all the waves of this storm.