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Yep we’ve done slightly better not melting outside the city, I’d eyeball 4” imby .

Officially 2” otg at MSP, max was 10” back in mid December. We’ve slowly inched our way back down and flirted with bare ground a few times but got the surprise post Christmas storm and some little snows to keep us with some snow. .

Since we just eked down to 0 this morning, MSP now forecast to have 10 consecutive calendar days with lows at or below zero by Saturday. And 14 out of 15 to close the month. Not atypical for MN but (somewhat surprisingly for me when I first saw this chart) the equivalent of 3-4 seasons worth of below zero temps for the southern/eastern parts of the sub. .

Clouds kept to the west of me and we dipped to -18 this morning. One more cold night on tap .

-22 at home away from the MSP heat island. Makes the -23 we hit yesterday with all the wind seem even more impressive though. Good swath of -30s from northern WI across northern MN, looks like a few places just squeaked under -40. .

The -9/-21 at MSP gives an average temp of -15, which was the third coldest day in the past 30 years (since Feb 1996).

Thermometer showing -20 air temp here, crazy drop this evening over the last 6ish hours from 0 at 4 pm. .

It is fun watching storms slowly creep into MN while the rest of the board quits winter and Alek trots out the Eurythmics [emoji23] But also I spent almost a decade in downtown Chicago so I put in my time watching white rain pour down at 33 degrees. .

-10 for a high on Friday and -20 for lows on Friday and Saturday in reach for MN and WI. Would only be the third such high temp and 10th such low temp since 1996 in MSP. Interestingly last year we had a -19 morning with only 1" of snow on the ground. The clippers of the past/upcoming week should help this time around. Looked through at the Madison WI records which surprised me, it looks to be only their 8th (and possibly 9th) subzero high temperature since 1996 and first time since then with back-to-back days high temp below zero. And there have only been three days with a low of -20 or less in the same period. Gonna be a while before we surpass the cold and wind chill of 2019 though.

Coincidence that packers fans wake up to that view the morning after a bears playoff loss?? I think not .

My dad got a better view over in Wisconsin .

Sun dogs and -9 this morning .

The Euro is even colder and has us -10 to -25 for about 48h from midnight Friday AM to midnight Sunday AM .

Can I go with back to back big dogs if they occurred two days apart? The last week of February 2007. First one was mostly on Sunday at my home in northeast WI but there was so much wind we had Monday as a snow day from school. Then we had Thursday and Friday off with the second storm, so 3 snow days in 1 week. I remember getting about 28” of snow between the two. Looking back at the WPC storm summaries the first one left anywhere from 8-18” all the way from Milwaukee up past Duluth, and the second one had a swath of 12-24” across most of MN, northern WI, and the UP. .

Prettiest of our daily morning snows this week .