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Been awhile since I’ve checked the ol’ Wrigleyville Earthcam

https://www.earthcam.com/usa/illinois/chicago/wrigleyville/?cam=wrigleyville

Looks like some decent banding over the loop right now, shame it’s transitory. 

3.5” today, which is the 6th largest calendar day snowfall of the season in Minneapolis, and brings the season total to 52.5”. Occasional snow showers rotating through this evening might deposit another tenth or two. 
 

Edit: Only 0.16” of liquid equivalent today. 

There was a correction made to the 6am obs. Airport recorded 2” of snow, which seems more accurate. 1.2” at the noon observation for a storm total of 3.2” with snow ongoing.

Oh and we’ve officially surprised our seasonal average of 51.2” currently at 52.1 as of noon.

48 minutes ago, Stevo6899 said:

Obviously Minneapolis has nothing to complain about but it's kind of a bummer how this system and snow bands shit the bed once it get out of the NE.  I wish I was more advanced in meteorology to understand why this system fell apart/occluded so quickly. 

Minneapolis was always on the far NW fringe of the snow shield for this system. The SE metro will finish around 6” Im guessing. There were numerous 4” reports coming in from that area while up in the city by the airport totals were still around 2” 

Nebraska deserved this one. They were due

Airport recorded 1.2” as of 6am, but most reports nearby are ~2” including 2.5” at the NWS office. Very small flakes didn’t lead to the productive rates that some of the models had honed in on. Should get an additional 1-2” throughout the day. 

Spent some time this evening scraping as much ice and compacted snow off the sidewalk and driveway as I could. The buildup has been bad this winter with the multiple long duration events. HRRR holding serve for a 4-6” thump at msp. 

P&C has been upped to 6” imby. Majority of the snow will fall overnight. I don’t think the message has gotten out, most of my coworkers didn’t know we are expecting any snowfall. 

2 hours ago, mnchaserguy said:

Not sure what MPX is seeing in their models

Probably the 18z NAM

1 hour ago, Chicago916 said:

Given the overall above average temperatures and above freezing temperatures, I'm curious how the Great Lakes ice cover compares to other years.

18 minutes ago, Brian D said:

2-3" of mostly lake effect for me. Refresh the snowpack a little after the the rainy weather we just had. Then the colder weather, but still above average will turn the snowpack into ice.

We have a 55gal drum half full of water sitting on top of the snowpack this morning. I can’t believe it’s holding, must be a glacier. 

Looks like a general 3-5” tonight across the twin cities. Closer to 6” far south and less to the north. This should replenish all we lost to the rain, and give the snowpack that nice clean look again. 

0.7” of snow yesterday. It’s been a very wet January and winter as a whole.

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! 

3 hours ago, roardog said:

Sorry Minnesota posters but today will probably start the SE and weaker trend. 

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.

5 hours ago, hawkeye_wx said:

00z Euro says Minneapolis bulls-eye yet again.  Unreal.

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."

37 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

 The saturation is definitely turned up though, no one's grass is that green in January.

Looking at the neighbors yard I’d say either golf course levels of fertilizer application or paint. 

Gotta appreciate the dedication to the bit. 

5 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Not sure what kind of phone camera you have, but whenever that happens that's a great time to get pictures of snowflakes. I have the Samsung Galaxy S21 and it's awesome for that

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.