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Time to reel this one in I suppose.

0.34” of rain today. We have just flipped over to a wet snow in the past twenty minutes. Snow depth is down to 10” on the 6pm obs

We doing lawn shots now? It’s palm tree weather in Minnesota today!

Have no pity on us, we’ve had an A grade winter here. Let’s spread the wealth.

Tide is turning. 0.50”-0.75” of very cold rain today, maybe a backend 1-2” I think the storm later this week is going to split the uprights and nail Dubuque and La Crosse.

Hey we are getting 0.50” of rain today, we need this.

MSP is joining the no cold air party. This excerpt from the forecast discussion is just sad to read. At least with our 15” snowpack we won’t have bare ground, just a glacier. “The main feature of interest though early this morning is the strong upper trough digging south in California. This is the feature that will move out in the central Plains tonight, with a surface low spinning up in southeast Colorado this afternoon, that by the end of the day on Monday, will be a little north of the Quad Cities. This isn`t far from the mean track of a "Colorado Low" that often can bring the Twin Cities better than 6" of snow, but this isn`t your typical January Colorado low. The difference is the complete lack of cold air with this system (see highs today in the mid/upper 30s). So instead of a decent snowstorm, this looks to be a predominately rain event, with the exception of the far northwest edge of the precip shield across western/central MN. As a retired long time forecaster here would have said of this storm, it`s a "waste of a good winter storm."

Looking at the neighbors yard I’d say either golf course levels of fertilizer application or paint. Gotta appreciate the dedication to the bit.

I’m living in the Stone Age with an iPhone 8. Always appreciate and enjoy your photos, they are really well done and miles above how mine turn out.

That back to back flip between MSP and CHI is wild. Just shows how every year is different. Mid continental troughs are the death kiss for any precip here.

Had about 20 snowflakes on my work truck windshield this morning.

Shit if we get another foot of snow before Chicago sees another 1.5” this place might lose its mind.

34F and lots of dripping here this afternoon. Slush puddles are in mid season form.

Only passed 1 jackknifed semi on the drive in to work.

Icing event here overnight. Solid glaze on everything. Going to be a disaster on the roads this morning.

Buffalo climate would drive me mad. Melting snow and the slop it brings is the worst. Getting epic 3”+ dumps would be an enticing trade off though. We go to northern Minnesota every few months. I love being only 2 hours from what feels like wilderness. Lots of skiing at Lutsen this time of year and multiple camping and backpacking trips every summer. I’ve been eyeballing land to purchase up there for a few years. I’d love to be near Lake Superior and the Lutsen/Tofte area, but if you want acreage (which I do) you’ve gotta go to the interior south of the boundary waters.

My first two winters here 15/16 and 16/17 I believe we finished sub 40” on snowfall, it comes and goes. The main takeaway here versus the lower lakes is the staying power of the snow we get. However there’s plenty of times I wish I lived in Duluth for a true deep winter.

ITT: A bunch of weenies who should move to Msp if they want snow otg in a large city. Haven’t had bare ground since 11/29

Deep snowpack allowed for ideal radiational cooling with a low of -1F overnight. The car thermometer read -6F as I drove to the ski hill away from the urban area. Snow must be settling and compacting, the airport is only reporting a 16” depth now.

Everything going the way of deep winter in my neck of the woods right now.

The official storm total for Minneapolis finished with exactly 15” of new snow. This is now the 3rd snowiest July 1 - January 5th period on record with 48.2” to date. This is the 2nd largest snowstorm I’ve experienced since moving to Minneapolis, the first being the April 13-16 2018 blizzard which put down 15.8” Snow-depth is somewhere between 16-20” imby. Lots of compacting due to the heavy nature of much of the recent snowfall. The sidewalk canyons remind me of February 2019 when we received 40” of snow and depths peaked around 24” Since December 1st we’ve received 3.10” of liquid equivalent water. All in the form of snow and most of it locked up in the snowpack.

Snow finally stopped. I see blue sky, spotter near my office is reporting 16.5”

I’m a little suspect of MSP only reporting a trace of snow between midnight and 6am. Its still snowing and we’ve picked up another half inch at least since I woke up at 530am. Either way, incredible storm, massive over performance and the snowpack here is nothing short of impressive.

Well that extended about locks in 40F and overcast for the first half of May.