I don’t know how much of an impact it has, or the validity, but I’ve heard urban areas create low level dry air and it take longer for storms to saturate the air column as a result. If that’s incorrect someone please correct me.
Second largest February storm ever at MSP. If that weenie band of 18-20” in the southern burbs was 10 miles north this would have been a top 5 snowfall all time. Given the full evolution of the storm, it’s was incredible to witness all major global model lock into a solution a week in advance that more or less verified.
Was about to post this. I don’t buy that 19” report but the 15-17” seems plausible given that area saw good banding from both waves. It’s still snowing fat dendrites here and I bet we have 13-14”
Now a 16” report in the SW suburb of Savage along with 15.5” in the southern suburb of Lakeville. Record February storm at MSP is 13.1” so that might be reachable depending on the noon obs. My ski area decided to leave all blues and blacks ungroomed overnight. Heading there for the noon open.
The models really had no idea on the evolution of this system. I wonder if it came down to multiple shortwaves rotating through instead of one solid deformation band of snow, which caused the 50% over modeling of precipitation. It’s ripping now but I’m guessing the final storm total will be between 10-12” at the airport if they can get an accurate measurement in this wind.