some of the prognosticators hedged their bets , saying the snow could change over to rain , but the fellow on the castle rock radio station that morning ( wcas was the only radio they could get up here , and even that was thin and jumbled with static ) had been talking about a fast - moving alberta clipper , six or eight inches , and maybe a nor'easter to follow , if the temperatures stayed down and the low did n't go out to sea .