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Snowfall total ranks 2nd in history for most snow in 1 day
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SNOW SETTLES on this car on Harvey Street on Sunday afternoon in Caldwell. This was a common scene for parked cars around town. -
BRITNEY DAVISON and Gus and Georgi Naquin pose with their snowman in the Hix area during Sunday’s record snowfall in the county. -
THESE CARS MOVE slowly along Buck Street on Sunday afternoon as the snow intensifies. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders -
THIS WAS THE view on Buck Street headed east on Sunday afternoon in Caldwell. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders -
SNOW COVERS THE roadway along Fox Street near First United Methodist Church in Caldwell. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders -
DORIS BROADDUS works on her snowman at her home along Old San Antonio Road on Monday. -- Tribune photo by Roy Sanders
Burleson County is used to severe weather in January...but over five inches of snow?
According to the National Weather Service, Sunday’s winter wonderland gave the county an official snowfall amount of 5.8 inches, ranking second on the county’s list of snowfall in a 24-hour span -- only behind 6 inches on Jan. 30, 1949.
For most of the area, it was heavy, wet snow, with the snow to liquid ratio…