Snow and a hard wind through the small hours, the air feeling near 21°F below zero and the gusts past 50 mph. It never stopped. The snow came and went all day without the wind easing, the cold lifting only a little to near 13° below zero by early afternoon, everything blown white and nothing moving on the ground. Then a longer burst came after dark. The air felt near 9° below zero by evening and the wind still worked at the drifts.