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Upper 40s and rainy this afternoon in Minneapolis. 
 

The median date for the first 80 of the year in Minneapolis is fast approaching on May 1st. Unless Monday overachieves it’s going to be later this year. 

This is the time of year we have better weather in Minnesota then lakeshore areas of Chicagoland. Near 70 yesterday and today.

Absolutely perfect spring weather. Starting to see some buds really swell on trees here.

4 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

MSP's 18th least amount of 1"+ snowcover days for a winter season,

There were many weeks this winter where my yard was white but the airport was reporting “T” for snow depth. Not enough snow to do anything with, but it still looked and felt like winter. 
 

My airline pilot father used to say that Mother Nature will always have a reversion to the mean. 
 

I’ll throw a C- grade at this winter.
 

Lacked snowfall, but with sustained seasonal cold the ground was white and the lakes were frozen all winter. Had a couple decent storms. 5.5” on 12/19 and 9.5” on 3/5. 
 

I think we are still paying for the epic 22/23 winter. 

I want to believe. 

Grass is my yard is starting to wake up. Hit 70 yesterday. Top tier weather.

15 hours ago, cyclone77 said:

Models are snowless through late April for this area, so looks like the all-time futility record will in fact happen.  Cause for celebration I guess lol.

Happy for you guys. If it’s not a decent winter might as well go biblically bad. 
 

Hopefully no May 1-3 2013 redux. Des Moines picked up 6.9” and Osage Iowa 13” shattering all time May snowfall records.

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/maysnow

Light rain with occasional ice pellets by me. Might see a quick transistion to snow as the last of it wraps through.

2.1” total paste job. 
 

29.4” seasonal snow total 

27 minutes ago, mnchaserguy said:

Grass has quickly gotten covered in snow. Roads should remain mostly ok. Big band moving in to my backyard soon.

Edit. After looking at DOT cameras in the south metro it looks like the roads are getting bad quick under that heavy band moving my way.

Can confirm roads are snow covered here. This band means business. We are going to end up with ~2” 

Edit: Monster flakes. Biggest of the season easily. 

Started accumulating as the sun went down. Should have a couple hours of decent rates until we changeover. 

White rain this afternoon. 
 

Hrrr has been steadfast on a heavier band moving through around 8-10pm and putting down 1-2” across the metro.

Mother Nature gives Twin Cities snow lovers an April Fool’s joke? Maybe a surprise is in store like Sunday. 
 

1.7” of snowfall at the airport yesterday. Surprisingly very little melting as the snow depth was just reported as 2”

Won’t last long but a scenic early evening here. 

Nice little weenie band about to rotate through. 

Out like a lion. 

Coming down good in the suburbs. Grass is white at the in-laws place in Plymouth.

1.64” of rain. All with temps hovering between 32-36

35/32 Heavy rain 

This would be nasty ice storm if we were a few degrees colder 

37/34 with light rain. Looks like I’ll be 20-40 miles south of seeing more wintry then liquid precip on this one. Good luck @mnchaserguy

35 and mist here in Minneapolis. Summer is only a few counties south. 

Backdoor cold front. Went from 73 to 64 at the airport in about 15min. 

73 and the flying insects have returned.

Could push 80 here today and accumulating snow chances this weekend. 
 

March never disappoints