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Okay, it had to happen sooner or later... The winter of 2011/2012 in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa metro area was a rather benign one--no significant snowfall up to this point and unseasonably warm temperatures. Indeed, just the day before this photo was taken temperatures soared to a balmy 50 degrees F. Reality set in fast during the night of January 11/12, 2012 however, as about 5.5 inches of snow fell and temperatures dropped from a system that stretched from Oklahoma northeast into the upper peninsula of Michigan. The temperature at the time this photo was captured--around 6:20 PM, Thursday, January 12, 2012--was 14 degrees F. The image looks west as the snow was beginning to taper off, and some lingering light from behind the cloud cover is still evident. The location is at the Boyson Park footbridge over Dry Run Creek just south of Boyson Road at the Cedar Rapids/Marion border.