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February 2022 in Minneapolis had a -6.1 temperature departure. 11 days went below zero. 0.78” of Precipitation, -0.09” below normal. 10.3” of snowfall for the month, 0.8” above normal. Overall a solid month of winter weather. I’m both a cold and snow weenie, so while we didn’t see extremes of either, solid snowpack and entrenched cold all month was very satisfying.

Let’s just go ahead and lock in the 18z GFS for next weekend please. Going to be an interesting week watching things evolve but looks like a major storm will be impacting the upper Midwest.

2.6” in Minneapolis. Exceeded my expectations. Been a good week

Only dropped down to -3 here last night with the high clouds. Much colder outside the urban core.

1.2” here as of 6pm. Pixie dust. Too bad because this could be a real quality event with better dendrites at 10F.

Haven’t even been paying any attention to this event but with yesterdays snow in the rear view mirror I guess time to get excited about a stat and snowdepth padding 1-3”

Awesome pics Bo. Maybe I should see if the Eagle Mine is hiring any geologists….

I’ve got some friends going up to Mt. Bohemia this weekend. Very jealous of them, as conditions look unreal. Good luck with the snow clearing today. Ship some of it over this way. The lakes could use some moisture to fill back up this spring.

Low of -6 with the fresh snow this morning. Late February sun sure does knock some of the sting off though.

4.9” officially as of 6pm. Light snow showers will probably bring us to just over 5” when all is said and done. This is on just 0.19” of liquid precipitation for a nearly 26-1 ratio. There was over 3 hours today with visibility under 1 mile and about an hour with visibility at or below a quarter mile. Seasonal snowfall stands at 41.8” or about how much snow is on Bo’s roof.

I’m going to guess around 4” downtown where I’m working this week. Still pounding down.

Top shelf snow the past couple hours. Praise the Trowel

Main bands of snow are just getting together but this has been a big nothing burger for the twin cities. NWS catching a lot of flak locally.

Looks like a little under an inch so far. Hard to tell because it’s just blowing around. Forecast is now calling for 3-6”

Glad to see you folks up north getting good snows outta this system. Going to be impressive depths by late week. The way things are trending 4-5” would be a win for us here.

This is trending towards just a nuisance event. Hennepin and Ramsey counties can probably be downgraded to a WWA. At least the mood flakes are flying.

Steel Grey overcast in downtown Minneapolis. Snow is gonna hold off until tonight now.

0z 3km NAM only putting out 0.2-0.3” of liquid equivalent for the cities. Really need a juiced storm to make its way here to ease the lingering drought.

Interestingly enough the two biggest storms of the season locally, (12/10 & now 2/21) have had northward shifts inside 24hrs. My 4-8 call is looking pretty solid for the metro, just north of here to Duluth will see double digit totals reign.

With the north trend probably won’t see much more then an inch tomorrow, just thick overcast. Going to really need wave 2 on Tuesday to preform after the beating our snowpack is taking today.

Temps peaked at 45 today. Warmest of the year. Winds have turned NW and sitting at 43. Lots of melting though.

Low of -1 this morning. Temps have been steadily rising ever since. Could push the mid 40s tomorrow before the long duration snows begin. Highest temperature of the year imby is 43.

Winter Storm watching hoisted for Minneapolis. 6-9” we are riding the southern edge of the best totals.

NWS thoughts… Monday-Wednesday...This portion of the forecast will be garner the most attention in the coming days as models have been rather consistent in bringing a prolonged appreciable snowfall to the Upper Midwest. A system still churning in the eastern Pacific will drop southeast along the Rockies Saturday through Sunday. Additional cyclogenesis will take place over WY/CO/KS Sunday night into Monday while enhanced isentropic lift broadly spreads east across the Northern Plains through the Great Lakes. This is likely to have snowfall develop Sunday night into Monday across MN and WI while the system slowly develops and lumbers east into the mid-Mississippi River Valley. This system looks to have two appreciable moisture sources: Pacific moisture being dragged along and in advance of the system and tapping Gulf of Mexico moisture northward towards the Upper Midwest. Given the strong dynamics of the system, its broad swath of moisture, and its slow forward speed within a pivoting H5 trough to enhance lift, there`s many ingredients in place to indicate that a prolonged event (early Monday through Tuesday evening) of accumulating snow is rather likely. There`s still plenty of model solutions out there with varying snowfall accumulations and also where those accumulations will be placed, in addition to that there will be breezy conditions with this system which will exacerbate winter weather impacts. Therefore, it is too early to speculate with high confidence snowfall amounts and impacts. These elements should become clearer over the coming days to give more details into the forecast.