It's October 12th, and it's SNOWING.

This photo is from my commute to work. The early snow made me wonder about books and government resources for weather and climate.









Online Government Resources:
1. National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center: National Snow Analyses
2. Natural Resources Conservation Service: SNOTEL Data & Products
3. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Recent Snowfall and Snow Depth Maps
4. Minnesota Department of Public Safety: Snowplow Safety

Government Documents:
1. Poor Richard improved : being an almanack and ephemeris of the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising and setting of the sun, and the rising, setting and southing of the moon, for the year of our Lord 1758: being the second after leap-year ... / By Richard Saunders, philom. [pseud]. Author: Benjamin Franklin.
2. Road weather management [microform] : highlights of the Federal program.
3. Hourly precipitation data. Minnesota / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
4. Climatological data. Minnesota [microform].

P.S. I do not recommend taking photos while you're driving. It's dangerous, and those pesky windshield wipers get in the way... :)

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