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I’ll bite. I enjoy it immensely. I would much rather work outside in a week of -10/+10 temps then 90+ with 70+ dews. I’m outside 80% of the time with my job so I have experience in all weather Minnesota can throw at me. I’m a diehard skier too so that’s an added reason I love deep winter. I’m ready for a pattern shakeup so we can get some fresh snow. There has only been one calendar day snowfall of 1” this month at MSP. I think it’s kinda strange how much you bitch and moan about the weather in a region you don’t frequently visit, but hey it’s a free country.

Got a little windy in La Crosse last evening.

MSP got to -13 last night.

Temp has risen to 0 at MSP. The airport was below zero for 67 hours.

MSP crew joining the fun.

Getting some light pixie dust. It’s warmed up to -4 so the atmosphere is primed.

MSP only dropped to -9 overnight. We should pop above zero today after ~65-70 hours below zero.

High of -2 at MSP today.

-15 at MSP

Four instances on the non-hourly 5min obs.

Minneapolis had a high of -9 today.

Coldest windchill at MSP was -48 overnight.

-21 Coldest morning at MSP since January 2019

There’s now 16.5” of ice on Lake Nokomis. The U.S. Pond Hockey Championships were supposed to kick off today but are postponed due to the cold. Not my photo but here is a Zamboni getting the numerous rinks ready in the snow yesterday.

Windchill values have reached -40 here

The further north track of this winter storm will allow a thick layer of cloud cover to build in throughout the night that will keep us much warmer than we thought 2 or 3 days ago. Lows will be in the -10Fs but with no wind we`ll just be uncomfortably cold versus dangerously cold

The sun sets and it’s -6 with a WC of -31. Tundra vibes

MSP fell below zero at 3:45pm dropping to -2 with WNW winds at 25 gusting to 37. Significant drifting over the road on the east side of the lake in my neighborhood.

Five day total of 39.1” in Minneapolis. Must have been a wild week. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/double-header-snowstorms-january-1982.html#:~:text=On Wednesday%2C January 20%2C 1982,fell on the January 22nd.

Was out in Colorado 1/8-1/15, got blessed with 10” of powder on day 1, but it’s historically bad out there. Definitely the worst season on record. People throw out 76/77 but they didn’t have snowmaking to supplement things back then. Fire season will be lit. (Pun intended)

Just under an inch of fresh snow today should help, although it’s blowing all around. Definitely expecting the coldest temps here since January 2019 when MSP had a daily hi/lo of -13/-28. I’ll be satisfied if we can get to -20 this go around. Outlying areas should have little trouble achieving that.

Gonna be some nice polar cold here for sure but we’d probably really bottom out if the snowpack was deeper. ~4” otg imby

-5 this morning, nothing to write home about so far.

No hate on Miami but go Hoosiers.

Looks like the CME has arrived at G4 levels. I’ll step outside once it gets dark. Feeling pretty blessed to have caught vivid light shows in my backyard multiple times this solar cycle.