Until this week, we have had a rather mild winter, weatherwise, with little snow. But with the Nebraska state basketball tournament underway this week in Lincoln, we should have known the nice weather wouldn’t last.

Nuckolls County residents awoke Monday morning to find approximately a half inch of snow blanketing the area. The amount of snow increased moving north to south across the two-state area. A Lawrence resident who drives to Superior daily to work, was surprised to find Highway 14 had more snow than Highway 4.

Monday morning’s difficult travel was just a prelude of what was coming for mid-week.

On Tuesday the National Weather Service was predicting a slow moving storm would enter the area on Wednesday and linger through Thursday, delivering its gift of a drier than normal snow accompanied by moderate winds.

The weather was not expected to impact Wednesday travel, however, travel was expected to be difficult on Thursday and may delay the delivery of this newspaper.

The heaviest band of snow was expected to follow the Kansas-Nebraska stateline with from 6 to 10 inches forecast. This band was expected to be concentrated between Highways 136 and 36.

In addition to snow, much colder temperatures were expected to accompany the storm. The low Friday morning for Superior was forecast to be six degrees below zero. Temperature is expected to rebound by Saturday.

Most of the snow was expected to fall between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday.

The forecast included some drifting.

Since the first storm forecasts were made, the track of the storm has tended to drift south so as this paper went to press late Tuesday, we were waiting to see how the forecast and reality would compare.