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The theme of models drying things out as an event gets closer continues for Minnesota. What was looking like a decent 0.5-1.0” event for the southern half of Minnesota now is trending to be a thin band of 0.5” somewhere south of the metro. Just hope we can score a few tenths imby.

Good luck with the convection for those to my south east.

Did some skiing today at Welch Village.

Started out very firm with temps in the low 20s but the March sun did it’s job and things became soft goodness and bottomless slush. My second favorite snow type to powder. 

Harvested lots of spring corn today. 

4 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

Quality soaker today

Jelly. Nothing but sun soaked here. 

Thanks for the info @Geoboy645 not going to get much precipitation with polar air in control. 

Long range makes me think it’s the return of the Dust Bowl.

I wonder what the record is for latest into the new year before Minneapolis surpasses 1” of precipitation for the year. 

Another miss SE for much needed precipitation. 0.78” since January 1st in Minneapolis. That has to be among the lowest total in the region. I noticed some trees are budding down in the Minnesota River valley. 

We went from the earliest 70 on record yesterday to snow flurries today. Second weather whiplash in under a week.

45 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Looks like another new record. Was 71 at the top of last hour at MSP.

We made it up to at least 72 today before temps began to crash with the cold front. Spent about 90min above 70 this afternoon. Down to 63 now. 

72 under cloudy (smoke?) skies. Breaks the earliest 70 on record value by 2 days. 

Cloudier then expected today. Currently sitting at 66 with a roaring breeze. Maybe theres a bit of wildfire smoke. One popped up west of the metro today. Can’t get the tweet embedded for some reason. 
 

https://x.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1764366534166851902?s=20

Feels like spring outside, very mild start to the day, birds chirping, earliest 70 on record seems like a lock today before we are stuck in the 40s for the next week. 

Forecast high of 65 today. The record is 54. Smashing temperature records by 10+ degrees is becoming old news this cold season. 
 

Earliest 70 on record at MSP is March 5th 2000. Good chance we break that record tomorrow. 

8 hours ago, WestMichigan said:

That is crazy you have been there.  Not a lot of people can say they intentionally went to the Woodsfield area.  I grew up just to the west of Monroe County in Noble County.  That is indeed a beautiful part of Ohio and nothing like the area North of I-70 and West of I-71 which is what most people think of when they think of Ohio. 

I had a choice between SE Ohio/ W PA or west Texas, easy decision.  South of I-70 and east of I-71 might as well be West Virginia, beautiful and semi remote. I always thought it was funny driving east on I-70 out of Ohio where you get Wheeling and 5 minutes of WV before you enter PA. Did a few projects in the Batesville area, but a lot more in Belmont, Monroe and Guernsey counties. 

1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

EF-2 confirmed in Monroe County, Ohio. That was the first recorded tornado in Monroe County since June 22, 1990, and only the 3rd of record since 1950. It was also the strongest of record, exceeding an F-1 in 1969.

 

Wow. I’ve spent a lot of time in and around Monroe County during my 3 year stint in the oil and gas industry. Very rural, and borderline Appalachia feel to that part of Ohio, it’s a beautiful area. I lived out of the “Olive Tree Inn” in Woodsfield during winter 2014/2015 and experienced a massive snowstorm in the first few days of March. They got 12” in about 10 hours and all the roads were snowed in for a few days. 

We went from the warmest February day on record to accumulating snow the next day.

These are the types of rapid changes you read about from the pioneer days when schoolchildren would freeze to death. 

Low of 3 here.
 

51 degree drop in about 18 hours. 

Wind whipped snow flying here.

Down to 30 here now. Snow should be starting in the next hour or two. 

Surged up to 53 and crashed down to 39 barely an hour later and dropping. Went from working in a t shirt to wind chills rather quickly. 
 

cool stuff

1 hour ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Minneapolis has now set two outright monthly record high temperatures in the last 5 months (with records dating to 1872) - 92 in October, and 65 in February. Additionally, only one year exceeded the 98F reading from September (1931 - 104, on 9/10; and 99, on 9/8), and the 55F reading in January has been exceeded only twice (1/25/1944 - 58F; and 1/24/1981 - 57F). Honorable mention to August - the 98F reading has only been exceeded in 9 years (5 of them by just one degree).

Temps are over preforming again today. Full sun and already 50F here. Just stat padding the record # of 50+ temps this winter. 
 

Payback from last winter. 

Looks like we officially made it to 64 in Minneapolis 

55 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

MSP up to 63F. All-time monthly high of 64F from 1896 in jeopardy. All-time seasonal high of 68F from December 1998 appears to be safe.

We hit 64 at one of the 5min obs, before some high clouds moved in. We’ll see this evening if it’s the official high. Warmest winter on record in the bag.

The record warmth this winter is one thing, it happens every 150 years or so around these parts. The zzzzzz pattern we’ve been in since Christmas with nothing to track is wearing on me though. 

34 and a snow shower moving through. Deck and remaining snow is dusted.