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There was a correction made to the 6am obs. Airport recorded 2” of snow, which seems more accurate. 1.2” at the noon observation for a storm total of 3.2” with snow ongoing. Oh and we’ve officially surprised our seasonal average of 51.2” currently at 52.1 as of noon.

Minneapolis was always on the far NW fringe of the snow shield for this system. The SE metro will finish around 6” Im guessing. There were numerous 4” reports coming in from that area while up in the city by the airport totals were still around 2” Nebraska deserved this one. They were due

Airport recorded 1.2” as of 6am, but most reports nearby are ~2” including 2.5” at the NWS office. Very small flakes didn’t lead to the productive rates that some of the models had honed in on. Should get an additional 1-2” throughout the day.

Spent some time this evening scraping as much ice and compacted snow off the sidewalk and driveway as I could. The buildup has been bad this winter with the multiple long duration events. HRRR holding serve for a 4-6” thump at msp.

P&C has been upped to 6” imby. Majority of the snow will fall overnight. I don’t think the message has gotten out, most of my coworkers didn’t know we are expecting any snowfall.

Probably the 18z NAM

We have a 55gal drum half full of water sitting on top of the snowpack this morning. I can’t believe it’s holding, must be a glacier.

Looks like a general 3-5” tonight across the twin cities. Closer to 6” far south and less to the north. This should replenish all we lost to the rain, and give the snowpack that nice clean look again.

0.7” of snow yesterday. It’s been a very wet January and winter as a whole.

Time to reel this one in I suppose.

0.34” of rain today. We have just flipped over to a wet snow in the past twenty minutes. Snow depth is down to 10” on the 6pm obs

We doing lawn shots now? It’s palm tree weather in Minnesota today!

Have no pity on us, we’ve had an A grade winter here. Let’s spread the wealth.

Tide is turning. 0.50”-0.75” of very cold rain today, maybe a backend 1-2” I think the storm later this week is going to split the uprights and nail Dubuque and La Crosse.

Hey we are getting 0.50” of rain today, we need this.

MSP is joining the no cold air party. This excerpt from the forecast discussion is just sad to read. At least with our 15” snowpack we won’t have bare ground, just a glacier. “The main feature of interest though early this morning is the strong upper trough digging south in California. This is the feature that will move out in the central Plains tonight, with a surface low spinning up in southeast Colorado this afternoon, that by the end of the day on Monday, will be a little north of the Quad Cities. This isn`t far from the mean track of a "Colorado Low" that often can bring the Twin Cities better than 6" of snow, but this isn`t your typical January Colorado low. The difference is the complete lack of cold air with this system (see highs today in the mid/upper 30s). So instead of a decent snowstorm, this looks to be a predominately rain event, with the exception of the far northwest edge of the precip shield across western/central MN. As a retired long time forecaster here would have said of this storm, it`s a "waste of a good winter storm."

Looking at the neighbors yard I’d say either golf course levels of fertilizer application or paint. Gotta appreciate the dedication to the bit.

I’m living in the Stone Age with an iPhone 8. Always appreciate and enjoy your photos, they are really well done and miles above how mine turn out.

That back to back flip between MSP and CHI is wild. Just shows how every year is different. Mid continental troughs are the death kiss for any precip here.

Had about 20 snowflakes on my work truck windshield this morning.

Shit if we get another foot of snow before Chicago sees another 1.5” this place might lose its mind.

34F and lots of dripping here this afternoon. Slush puddles are in mid season form.

Only passed 1 jackknifed semi on the drive in to work.