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0.2” at MSP with the wave last night. 

It’s -4 and we’ve been churning out the tiniest little sugar flakes for over 5 hours now. Isn’t accumulating very well, we may have finally broken the 0.1” mark. 

^ Deep cold up north. We managed a single 5min ob of 1 at the airport, otherwise peaked at 0 before the snow moved in and we dropped below again. 

-10 currently with a high of 0 today. We failed to break single digits the last two days so our streak below 10 degrees goes on. We were last in the double digits the morning of February 5th. 

3 hours ago, HighTechEE said:

Not sure if anyone has posted this or not yet from the 12z GFS 16 day total snow, BUT I've never ever seen this much fantasy/eye candy snow modeled for SW Ohio before! This is in the HOLY SH*T category, 3tf for SW Ohio in the next 16days, hell if half that falls it would set records!!!

I don’t even need to see the northern plains section of this map to know it’ll be damn close to a shutout here with everything suppressed south. Oh well, might as well freeze Lake Superior over.

^ Tree wells are no joke. Been caught in small-ish waist deep ones before. 

Overnight low of -6 before the clouds and light snow moved in. Another morning with 0.1-0.2” of accumulation. 

Sat at 0 for 4 hours this afternoon with a couple 5min obs of 1, have since fallen back to -1 at 5pm.

Low of -11 this morning. Sunny skies today will probably bring us up to 0 or 2 above 

Wound up with .2-.3” of new snow on just a trace of precip. NWS only mentioned a slight chance of flurries in the aviation discussion. Impressive what moisture can be squeezed out of this airmass.

NWS adjusted this mornings low to -17 and this afternoons high made it to -2.

-4 and snowing. I’ve only seen it snow this cold a few other times.

31 minutes ago, hlcater said:

This may be a flooding problem at some point down the road. Especially if there's a hard cutter or otherwise rapid warm up.

The only saving grace (for now) is that snowpack is below average across northern Wisconsin and central/northern Minnesota. Headwaters for the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers. 

GFS pitching a 16 day shutout for MSP. Zzzzzzzz indeed.

Warming up nicely in Minneapolis under mostly sunny skies, -8 at 11:45am.

-16 is our low in the city. Suburbs dropped to -20. Red Wing MN which is 40 miles southeast of town got down to -24, and International Falls is sitting at -29. 

Been stubbornly sitting at -15 for the past few hours.

Already down to -9F here. 

2 hours ago, Brian D said:

Nasty!

 

Not a good weekend for a Lutsen trip!

21 minutes ago, beavis1729 said:

Let's shoot for #1...1899 or bust.  Same time of year too.

Sure! However 9 days below zero is something I only want to experience once 

-3F at 7am. Only the 3rd below zero low of the season at MSP. (We average 11 in January alone) 

P&C has lowered my high to a balmy -1F for today. 

To make the top 10 longest below zero streak only 4 more days to go. 130 consecutive hours below zero is the tenth spot. 
 

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/zero_and_below_streaks.html

A bit chilly in the extended.

Low of 6F overnight. Nothing forecasted to get that warm until next weekend. 

Fresh drifting snow on frozen Lake Nokomis, Dog, and a beautiful sunset. Doesn’t get better then this. 

Oof. Tomorrow looks like our last high temperature above 10 for the foreseeable future. Lake Superior will be manufacturing ice this month.