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Torched above freezing from 1-3am with a peak of 36. Crashing through the 20s now with a few stray flurries. This is our moment for this storm.
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The chase is always better then the catch. This has been awfully fun to track even though I have zero skin in the game. I’d be feeling pretty anxious if I still lived in Lake County IL, but excited to see the totals that come out of central IL. Going to be tough for Chicago to beat out Detroit by 10” this year after this dog comes through.
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That’s wild. I had to look this up. I was a student in Iowa City during the December 2009 blizzard that put down around a foot in IC. Plenty of 12-15” totals around Linn county but the Cedar Rapids airport mysteriously was on the low end with 8.5” I’m sure @hawkeyehas memories of that storm 12-8/9-2009
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Time to activate the NW trend. C’mon Korean model. In all seriousness looks like a very solid storm for much of the sub, and deep deep cold for me. Flying to Chicago Saturday morning February 5th so here’s to hoping it’s stacked high when I arrive.
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-6 for the overnight low. Heat island flexed it’s muscles and kept us warmer then surrounding areas. This is the 15th below zero low of the season for Minneapolis.
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There’s a 47 degree difference in 7am temperatures compared to yesterday. -17 to 30
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-17 in the heat island this morning. Suburbs made it down into the -20s. I didn’t look at lows across the state. Regionally Red Wing made it down to -24 which was the coldest spot I found within 40 miles of the metro.
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Down to -13 here this morning. We’ll struggle to get above zero today.
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1.3” from Clipper #3 for a 3 day total of 4.4”
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Yeah I was hoping to get into the main banding but can’t get too greedy. Depths are back up to 8-9” here, with a stout compact glacier on the bottom.
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Not expecting much outta wave #3 imby. Light snow has started.
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2.3” in Minneapolis on 0.11” of precipitation for a ratio of over 20:1. 31” on the season now and snowdepth around 8”.
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Snow winding down. Looks like a hair over 2” of very powdery snow. Ratios had to be pushing 20:1 for this event.
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Visibility down to 0.75mi now.
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Can confirm. 1-2mi vis and parachutes for a couple hours now.
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Zero wind tonight leading to a much more beautiful snowfall then last night. Ratios are certainly better since it’s much colder and the dendrites aren’t getting shattered.
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Clipper #2 underway here. 1-2” tonight and 1-3” tomorrow night.
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Ended up with 0.8” from wave 1.
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Same story here, blew through quick and with wind. I’d guess half an inch of actual accumulation but in some places the sidewalk is bare and other spots have 3”
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Clipper #1 started about 10min ago locally. Dust on crust already.
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Return flow on the backside of the high kept us from really dropping off last night. Only got down to -8. Clipper train starts this evening.
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-10 in Minneapolis last night. Torched to 3 above this afternoon.
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Yep im a Geologist/Environmental Scientist for a large engineering and testing firm in the cities. Outside collecting and analyzing samples at job sites most days. I travel all over the state. I’m pleasantly surprised how well I’ve acclimated to negative temperatures. Still Brrrrr. Clipper train here over the weekend. First two look like dust but the third might be more impactful.
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Bottomed out at -1 this morning. Not much of a recovery today with a high of 4 above, and a struggle to make above zero tomorrow!
