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Blizzard (1/4 mile visibility, snow, peak wind gusts to 40kt at this moment) with easterlies. Hard to do with easterlies.

This winter compared to my 80" Loveland winters. November: 1" and dusting? maybe more December 1" and ground blizzard, maybe 1" more after Christmas. January: 7.5" February: 1" March: 2" (Today... super wet at 33 degrees) total 13.5"

This winter sucks. There is about 1" to 2" on grass and no snow on pavement because it was so warm.

current radar and storm reports

the storm is raging in Iowa. Des Moines, 1/4 mile visibility

70's and then snow is normal for Colorado in Oct/Nov and April.

This is one of the first times my place has had a north/northeasterly wind flow for a long time. Also note my area was 6 degrees above normal in February.

I may finally have to shovel more snow than I did in January.

March 8, 2000? Weird. it checks out

Loveland Co-op, close to where I lived in Loveland: 40.1", also much better than Fort Collins. (I don't know what street that was on.)

Looks like the snow just isn't going to be there. Keep up the hope for more snow in March. Northern Colorado isn't doing badly on total snow for the cities (I think). The snow water equivalent is 104%/121% in the mountains. The areas well east of I-25 seem to have gotten quite a bit of snow over this winter. DIA: 41.6" Boulder: 67.3", just a bit above normal Fort Collins: 28.5", below normal Greeley: 31.1", above normal Longmont Co-op: 41.9" that seems much better than Fort Collins Walden: 60.2 (above normal for this higher elevation location)

actually Radarscope showed zero lightning strikes (cloud-ground)

south of Minneapolis

Let's look at how many confirmed tornadoes there were in the winter, counting from the end of November. (Source: Wikipedia) November 29-30, 2022 tornadoes: 25, max: EF3, fatalities: 2 December 2022 tornadoes: 70, max: EF3. There were 68 tornadoes on December 12-15, with 3 fatalities in this outbreak. One tornado occurred on Dec. 29 and one on Dec. 30. January 2023 tornadoes: 125, max: EF3. There were 41 tornadoes on January 12th, with max EF3, and 8 fatalities. On January 24th, an EF3 tornado was in the Houston metro area. February 2023 tornadoes: 53, max: EF2. On February 26th and EF2 tornado moved through Norman Oklahoma with a 27 mile track. Fatalities: I didn't see anything on this, maybe zero. March 2023 tornadoes: 22, to this date, (posting date: March 5th). max: EF2 (two of them). Some tornadoes have been recent, but most likely the NWS has completed storm surveys (?) total tornadoes: 295 number of days from November 29th to March 4th: 96 average of 3.0 tornadoes per day. I think 3.0 tornadoes per day is way above average.

Looks like the new storm is moving in to Minneapolis

The GFS has a complicated snowy scenario for a lot of the northern Plains coming up this week, which would include northern Colorado in the snow. The ECMWF does not really have the snow.

Toledo has had 2 months of soggy rainstorms since Dec 29, as shown on this chart. Relatively little of this total precipitation was snow.

a solid zone of snow on radar has transitioned to a few localized moderate snow bands

preliminary storm reports are 3.5" to 6" (isolated) in northwest Detroit

This must be wet snowflakes that are bright banding

thundersnow on the radar screen as well as local airport observations at Adrian MI, Decatur IL

well, this is in the Ohio Valley area... apparently this was a confirmed tornado, and a few more warnings in the Evansville region

I found this preliminary information

There have been preliminary tornado reports near Champaign, Plainfield, and Naperville

new confirmed tornado near Meeker/ Johnson about 35 miles from Oklahoma city