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It may have just been more people getting their weekly shopping done today in preparation but shelves were emptier then usual. We’ve already had one 15” storm this season.

That would be the all time largest snowstorm in Minneapolis if it verifies. Word is getting out to the general public, panic buying of typical staple foods is underway.

Deal. We’ve got the all time seasonal snowfall record of 98.6” from 82-83 to break. Sitting at 55.6” with a good shot at being over 70” by the end of the week.

Hail to the king

Euro holding steady dropping 2’ imby by next Friday morning. Hard to sleep with such run to run consistency.

Rip my roof

https://twitter.com/CodyMatzFox9/status/1626566961869062144?s=20 Something interesting to consider given how much this board chatters about sun angle.

27.3” imby. I’ll be seriously concerned for my roof if that verifies. Still have tons of snow up there.

It’s remarkable how much consistency we are seeing. I feel pretty confident in something significant occurring imby next week. I don’t buy the Euro outputs of 24”+ but we’ve already had one 15” storm this season why not make it two.

NWS is extremely bullish on accumulating snow here next week. I’ve never seen the grid forecast have 80-90% chance of precipitation 6 days out.

The global models seem fairly honed in on hammering Minnesota next week. It’s not often there’s such strong agreement this far out, it will be very interesting to see what goes wrong.

There’s been a considerable snow hole over Omaha this winter. They were due.

That gradient would probably produce significant snows somewhere in my region. I’ll take it.

Enjoy your snowfall today, it sure looks like a nice little event. We can revisit this when it’s closer then fantasy range.

Frozen melt water channel from yesterdays rain. My 50 square foot driveway is so icy I had to put my vehicle in 4wd to avoid sliding into the neighbors garage leaving for work this morning.

Twin Cities NWS is fairly bullish on the back half of February. “As for next week, we`ll have a rather volatile pattern setup across North America as significant slug of arctic air builds on the front range of the Canadian Rockies down into the the northern US Rockies. At the same time, an anomalously strong subtropical highs will setup over the Bahamas. The arctic airmass in Canada will supply us with plenty of cold air this time around, while anti-cyclonic flow around the Bahamas high will send moisture surging north out of the Gulf toward the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. This is a favorable large scale pattern for seeing above normal precipitation up here. Exactly where this strong baroclinic zone ends up will determine where the storm track ends up next week, but we are seeing signs that a few waves could pass along this boundary through the end of next week. It`s a bit early to dive into the weeds of the specifics details, but this is a favorable pattern for precipitation across the central CONUS and cold air should be in place for the first time in a while (or so it seems).”

Here we received 0.84” of precip from the latest system yesterday. Models were pumping out 0.75-1.25” with the trend increasing until game time. Just an observation fwiw.

After having spent the previous 56 days with an official snow depth of 6” or more, the 6pm obs is reporting 5” otg.

Bottom shelf day of steady rain on top of 6-8” of remaining snow with 2” of solid ice under that. Can’t ever recall seeing rain north of the international border in mid February before. Lots of juice with this system

Madison is going to pass up MSP on seasonal snowfall at this rate.

Rainer on Tuesday and a near miss SE on Thursday. Bummer

Low of 9 this morning. Not much else going on here, just a slow melt.

At what point do these rants just become copypasta?

Anything above 78 is too warm for me in the summer. Try working outside, I’ll take 0 degrees over 90 anyday.