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Twin Cities NWS is fairly bullish on the back half of February. “As for next week, we`ll have a rather volatile pattern setup across North America as significant slug of arctic air builds on the front range of the Canadian Rockies down into the the northern US Rockies. At the same time, an anomalously strong subtropical highs will setup over the Bahamas. The arctic airmass in Canada will supply us with plenty of cold air this time around, while anti-cyclonic flow around the Bahamas high will send moisture surging north out of the Gulf toward the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. This is a favorable large scale pattern for seeing above normal precipitation up here. Exactly where this strong baroclinic zone ends up will determine where the storm track ends up next week, but we are seeing signs that a few waves could pass along this boundary through the end of next week. It`s a bit early to dive into the weeds of the specifics details, but this is a favorable pattern for precipitation across the central CONUS and cold air should be in place for the first time in a while (or so it seems).”

Here we received 0.84” of precip from the latest system yesterday. Models were pumping out 0.75-1.25” with the trend increasing until game time. Just an observation fwiw.

After having spent the previous 56 days with an official snow depth of 6” or more, the 6pm obs is reporting 5” otg.

Bottom shelf day of steady rain on top of 6-8” of remaining snow with 2” of solid ice under that. Can’t ever recall seeing rain north of the international border in mid February before. Lots of juice with this system

Madison is going to pass up MSP on seasonal snowfall at this rate.

Rainer on Tuesday and a near miss SE on Thursday. Bummer

Low of 9 this morning. Not much else going on here, just a slow melt.

At what point do these rants just become copypasta?

Anything above 78 is too warm for me in the summer. Try working outside, I’ll take 0 degrees over 90 anyday.

Yeah I’m really suffering here. Even if we don’t see another inch of snow this winter, my grade can’t go below a B/B+

We’re fine. A midwinter thaw is totally normal. I’ll be jonesing for fresh snowfall now that the pack has a dirty look to it. Kinda cool with the melting you can clearly see the multiple layers on our table. Extended doesn’t look great but there’s still plenty of time left up here.

43 degrees. First time breaching 40 since November

It’s February 7th, 39 degrees, full sun, a foot of snow melting on the ground and I’m working outside in a t-shirt.

Miss south stank…

0.1” of snow and crust yesterday. We’ll lose a couple inches to compaction and melting today and tomorrow.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say the roof was closed during those games, and it was 68 degrees inside the stadium.

April 2018 was perfect. 26.1” of snow and palm tree weather by the end of the month.

Getting a solid sleet storm here. Probably mostly mixed bag in my corner of the metro but maybe a sloppy inch by morning. North of town looks to do well tonight.

Did someone say April 2018

30 degrees, full sun. Beautiful day, the lake is full of ice houses.

We clouded over earlier then expected last night and only made it down to -13F. A few spots in the east metro touched -20F

Airport is reporting 10”, imby I’m measuring anywhere from 12-15” There is 3-5” of liquid equivalent locked up right now. I can almost walk on top of the snow, it’s a glacier.

Arctic air in full force this afternoon. Full sun and temps in the single digits. Next week the melt is on.

Jokes on me, it’s -15F in Benson MN this morning and we can’t get the diesel drill rig to start.

False, we are having a stellar ski season in central/southern MN. My hill has been 100% open for over a month and hasn’t had to make any snow. Snowmobiles are all over too. I appreciate the dedication to the bit, but you really need to move to Memphis or St. Louis, or Houston.