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We clouded over earlier then expected last night and only made it down to -13F. A few spots in the east metro touched -20F

15 hours ago, Chambana said:

What’s your snow depth?

Airport is reporting 10”, imby I’m measuring anywhere from 12-15” 

There is 3-5” of liquid equivalent locked up right now. I can almost walk on top of the snow, it’s a glacier. 

Arctic air in full force this afternoon. Full sun and temps in the single digits. 
 

Next week the melt is on. 

8 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Look at the guy with 5 feet of snow on the season flexing on us peons. 

Jokes on me, it’s -15F in Benson MN this morning and we can’t get the diesel drill rig to start. 

1 hour ago, hardypalmguy said:

Lovin it.  WI isn't for skiing and snowmobiling anymore.  Need to go to northern MN. 

False, we are having a stellar ski season in central/southern MN. My hill has been 100% open for over a month and hasn’t had to make any snow. Snowmobiles are all over too. 
 

I appreciate the dedication to the bit, but you really need to move to Memphis or St. Louis, or Houston. 

-8F is all we could muster at the airport. Looking at the suburbs and outer areas they got down to -15 to -20

Morning low of -8F in Minneapolis. 

-6F for the low this morning, coldest low since -12 on December 23rd.

Impressive the difference across the region. I’ll go with a solid A- so far this winter. 60+ days and counting consecutive of snow cover. 15” storm right after New Years. Already surpassed our seasonal average. If we can keep the snow pack to mid March and tack on average snow from here on out this is a slam dunk A grade winter. 

After todays snowfall Minneapolis is up to 55.5” on the season. Extended looks cold and dry, but sometimes on the backside of these arctic highs we see WAA snow. Will be a zzzzz period for sure over the next week. No extreme cold just a typical annual Minnesota cold snap. 

36 minutes ago, mimillman said:

Had to leave the floor in the middle of the trading day for this one 

 

You work for the Merc? My father was a commodity trader at the CBoT from 83’-15’

Cold front just blasted through. We surged above freezing to 34F from 7:10-8:00 and now the bottom is dropping out. 28 degrees and a stiff NW wind steady at 23 and gusting to 40mph. 

2.2” at the airport. Overachiever here. 
 

Woke up pleasantly surprised by this quick hitting WAA wave, visibilities around a mile and well over an inch of new accumulation. Temps have really warmed up overnight, it was 12 when I went to bed and 29 now. We might clip freezing before the bottom drops out this afternoon.   

Temperatures dropped off the ledge when the cloud cover moved off and Minneapolis recorded a low of 1 this morning.

Drove down in Rochester MN for work. Backend of the snow showers are exiting the area. FYI for Chicago peeps, atmosphere is producing snow out of very little cloud cover. 

0.7” here yesterday, maybe the same tonight.

18 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

This seems inflated, a result of IMO poor standard operating procedure for snowfall measurements. Should be every 12 hours, not 6. If snow depth is down to 2” within basically 12 hours of an event starting, how can a reasonable person say that 3.5” actually fell?
 

If the snow compacts/melts 24 hours after the event ends, that’s another thing. But during the event…it just doesn’t pass the reasonability test.

Again, I’m not questioning the measurer - just the SOP. 

When one looks at the historical records after today’s snowfall, it will only look like a slightly below normal snowfall month through 1/25. But that’s ridiculous, because it has hardly snowed in January and has been extremely mild. The worst January ever, but it won’t look that bad in the historical records. When situations like that can be allowed to happen, it should cause the experts to revisit the measuring methodology. 

I actually feel during snow events they should measure every hour to get a better sense of how much fell before compaction/melting takes too much effect.
 

If it doesn’t rain for the first 30 days of July but 4” falls on the 31st should that not be counted because then it wont show how dry the month was? 

Have had a couple hours of decent rates and better dendrites here. Guessing 1/4”-1/2” an hour. 
 

I know it’s not really the same system the rest of the sub-forum is experiencing but I’d hate to feel left out. 

23 minutes ago, Brian D said:

Snowing here with 1" so far this morning from a separate little clipper moving SE. Winds off the lake enhancing the snow a little. The energy is washing out over WI as it moves into the bigger system you guys are getting now.

Pixie dust here all morning. Probably still under or around a half inch, looks to have on/off snow here through Friday. 

Mood dust here this morning. We’ll see what we end up with.

33 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I just can't stand to see sun melting snow lol.

This.

5 minutes ago, madwx said:

with the extremely cloudy stretch recently and the upcoming snow and cold over through the middle of February I'll definitely start looking forward toward Spring around Feb 20th.

I’ll be ready for spring the first week of May when skiing in Minnesota is over the season. 

This shows precipitation totals since November 30th ranked all time. Pretty cool representation of where the firehose has been pointed, and why it’s been the 4th snowiest start to winter on record here.

Go riverboat gambler style with a 60” / 10” challenge.