Snow started falling on Saturday, 1/24 and transitioned to sleet and freezing rain in the early morning hours before turning back to snow as low pressure briefly moved in. The extreme cold and breadth of this storm prompted Kentucky to declare this storm extremely dangerous particularly as frigid temperatures will make driving hazardous for quite a while and as these temps persist for the entire week ahead. Recorded 3.5 inches of snow on my board as of 8:17 a.m. and the snow was crusted over with ice. I could not clear it or take a core. Melted precipitation in my gauge measured 0.95 inch. Birds an emptying my feeders with alacrity, walking is slippery and trees and shrubs encased in about 1/4 inch ice. It was difficult to measure but I did my best with an engineer’s scale.