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High of 9 today with 0.6” of snow. 

Light snow all morning with a temp around 2-4. Warmest it's snowed in almost two weeks. Probably will end up around 0.5"

Only managed to get down to -3 here as cloud cover kept us relatively warm. Trade off is mood flakes all day. 

Per the NWS at MSP:

281 consecutive hours with a windchill of zero or below.  2/4-2/16

116 consecutive hours with an air temperature of zero or below.   2/11-2/16

225 cumulative hours spent below zero in February so far. (Most since 1936)

25 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

Pretty good. Plus, I'm sure you'll cash in over the next month. 

Yeah I’m not worried about it. We are only about 2” ahead of norm to date. Our time will come again, and the deep prolonged cold was enjoyable.
 

I was just trying to remind you that we all can’t cash in all the time and although it’s frustrating watching big dog totals come in a county away I’m sure within the next 5 years you’ll see a foot in early December and Alec will have cold rain and dust at the end. 

17 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

How much have you gotten since October? 

41.1”

24 minutes ago, McHenrySnow said:

The 1st system was good? 

I’ve gotten 1.9” since January 23rd. How much have you received?

11 degrees under full sun this afternoon. Feels comfortable outdoors.

Impressive stuff. Thanks for letting me experience the event vicariously through you all.

Got down to -15 here last night. Temps already torching up to -6 here. Won’t be long until we are above zero for the first time in almost a week. 

@A-L-E-Kdoing the lords work. Keep posting the sauce and enjoy the burial.

All timer lake effect event for the west side. Someone xc ski or snowmobile to Evanston (pick me up some Buff Joes) and grab a measurement tomorrow. 

Our streak below zero appears to have ended as the temperature has risen to 0. 

Low of -18 again in the city. UHI flexed it’s muscles as New Richmond WI 40 miles east got down to -35

Overachiever high of -4 today. One degree shy of the record low max. Quickly dropped to -8 as the sun set. 

Chicago is only 4” behind Minneapolis on snowfall for the season. No doubt will pass us in the next few days. What a turnaround for you guys. 

3 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

Hows TWC doing on their Feb grade?

There’s someone who was here this morning who swears by private forecasters but looks like he got banned. 

Perhaps the problem is the NWS isn’t funded enough and we should increase funding for scientific research. Ever think of that one?

Officially got down to -18 at the airport and -20 at the nws office. 
 

much more impressive is the cold up north. -50 outside of Ely is a new state record for 2/13 and how about Duluth going down to -35

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.CLIMATE... Issued at 314 AM CST Sat Feb 13 2021 The current forecast holds highs at MSP below 0F through Monday. If this happens, it would result in a stretch of 4 consecutive days that MSP failed to get above 0F (with a high of +1F on Thursday the only thing keeping it from being a stretch of 5 days!). This would be the first time since 1989 we`ve had a stretch of at least 4 days that failed to get above 0F and the first such stretch in February since 1936. Since 2000, we`ve only achieved stretches of 3 consecutive sub-zero highs in a row twice, in January`s of 2009 and 2019. Another impressive streak we have going now are days in a row with highs less than +10F. At the moment, that streak stands at 7 and we currently don`t have a double digit high forecast until Wednesday. So if we make it all the way through Tuesday staying colder than 10F, that would push this streak out to 11 days in a row, which would be the first time we`ve had at least 10 consecutive days with highs less than 10F since 1974. The record stretch is 15 days in a row that happened in 1974, 1936, 1912, and 1899. So we are definitely getting out into rarefied air with the longevity of this cold snap. Lastly, for MSP, there has not been a record low set in a winter month (Dec, Jan, and Feb) since December 26, 1996, with February 2, 1996 being the most recent record low in February. The record lows Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday are -25F, -25F, and -26F respectively. Right now, it looks like we`ll be close, but not quite to those levels. Our best chance at a record low will probably come Sunday morning, as continued winds should help keep the urban heat island mixed out. For Sunday night and Monday night, we`ll have the high overhead, which means we`ll be decoupled and there will be nothing to stop the urban heat island from flexing its muscles, though it will be something to keep an eye on.

 

Required reading on cold nights like tonight. -11 at 11pm.

https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/to-build-a-fire.pdf

20 minutes ago, Snownado said:

Looks like you will be in the 30s next weekend. That will feel balmy.

No kidding. With the prolonged stretch of sub 10 degree weather we’ve had anything over 20 will feel balmy. 

Another day with a high below zero at -2. Now at over 50 hours below zero and looks like we might add another couple days to the streak. 

Today’s high was -4, and there’s a chance we don’t see zero again until Monday. 

-8 with full sun at noon. 
 

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