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Picked up 2.8” overnight putting us over 20” on the season. 
 

another 1-3” tomorrow and then deep freeze.

These Stevo takes will be fun to revisit in March. 80-1 odds Chicago has 10” more snowfall then Detroit this winter.

Light quarter to half inch of fresh snow this morning. 2-4” totals north of the metro. 

Low of 9 last night. Considering the doom and gloom in this sub lately I’m thankful my backyard looks like this. 

Riding the hot hand in Minneapolis, another 1”+ overnight certainly helped refresh our snowpack and put the season to date total imby over 17”

Dusting of snow so far. Wind is swirling it around. Should have a few hours of -SN this morning 

Peak overnight wind gust at MSP of 60mph. 24F with snow showers currently. 

Temperature peaked at 58 just ahead of the (rather unimpressive) storms. Peak gust of 37mph so far. Things are eerily calm at the moment.

Temperatures starting to jump up here as dews pool ahead of the line of storms. 54/52. Old record 51

Grass is showing up. We’ve melted nearly 8” of snow in 18 hours. Will be left with patches and piles by morning. 

There has a never been a recorded tornado in Minnesota in December. 
 

Let’s see how today changes that.

34 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

Pretty cool to see 5% tor probs in the area where over a foot of snow fell a few days ago.  Still solid snow cover on the ground there too.

We’ve still got 8” otg here. Will be very interesting see how much survives tomorrow. 
 

I recall a tornado in either Kenosha or Racine County WI in January back around 2005-2008 that occurred with snow on the ground. 

2 hours ago, hardypalmguy said:

Nothing is better than endless torch in winter.  I'll take 50s and 60s all winter and 80s and 90s all summer.

That sounds like absolute hell. Troll post?

What a storm. 11.8” officially imby and the airport. Crazy this will likely be our biggest storm of the year with the rest of the sub in winter-less hell and record warmth on the way. Southern suburbs (5-10 south of me) received 15-18” under that stalled heavy band while northern suburbs where my in-laws live received 3-8” for a big spread south to north across the metro. Ratios ended up around 16-1 so a very light easy to shovel snow. I bought a new 2021 Toyota 4Runner TRD off-road this summer and decided Friday evening was the perfect time to test the 4WD system and drive 40 miles SE for some powder skiing. Well worth it. Things are very wintry around here with deep snowcover, at least for another couple days…..

The southern suburbs finished with 15-20” totals. The airport and mby finished with 11.8” 

Looks like a 20” report just came in from Woodbury. (Eastern suburb) 

What an evening it has been, especially here on the southern half of the metro. Sitting at around 9.5” imby so we should break double digits.

Much more impressive there are many reports of 15”+ in the southern suburbs where the heaviest banding from earlier this evening stalled.

Stacking flake quickly in Minneapolis. Visibility under a mile in moderate snow. Airport cancellations ramping up. 

8 hours ago, MNstorms said:

You could be getting lucky

I haven't gotten over 12'' of snow in a storms since December 2010. Last time I remember southern Minnesota getting over 14'' was May 2013.

Aren’t you in Mankato? I thought they did well with one of the February 2019 storms. Either way it’s looking good for  both our areas.

First winter storm warning of the season imby. Going to be sweating the gradient tomorrow, would like to be 30-40 miles south but given the pattern we are in I’ll take it! 

Hi-res models coming into focus and slowing inching north. First winter storm watch of the season posted. Looks like Minneapolis might win the thread the needle pattern award. 

3” of snow otg, clear skies and 5 degrees. Finally feels like winter. 

I think MSP will be on the far northern fringe of things so I’m trying not to get to excited. My local ski hill is 40 miles southeast so I’m getting pretty optimistic about powder skiing this weekend.

Todays wave came with more of a punch then expected. Very fluffy high ratio snow. 2-4” reports across the southern portion of the metro. The airport reported 1” as of noon. My guess is ~1/2” or so is added to the final total.