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Storm total up to 2.00” haven’t had a single rumble of thunder just steady rain all night.

Our turn to get in on the action. 1-3” expected area wide by tomorrow.

Have seen less then a quarter inch of rain this month. Could use some of that excess moisture down in IL up here.

Down to 30F imby last night. Widespread 20s outside the urban heat island. Time for some May mood flakes today, I will be eyeballing the deck this evening to see if we can accumulate anything

I’ll take no blowtorch please with a side of Canadian high pressure.

1 hour ago, mississaugasnow said:

I believe that happened in 2018 in the eastern great lakes. We had a very late season ice/winter storm in mid April, chilly beginning of May and by Mid May had highs around 80-86F. It was weird to be working outside baking in the sun while thinking only a few weeks ago I was freezing and walking thru snow. 

Minneapolis received 15” of snow on April 16. Lakes were iced over until early/mid May and many had record late ice out dates. Memorial Day weekend it was 95-100F and I was swimming in Gull Lake two weeks after ice out. 

16 hours ago, Hoosier said:

We might as well get a snow system to make something historic out of this.  Don't think we've ever had a May snow thread.  

Was there never a thread made for this event? I remember living in Iowa City and taking a drive west to experience a May snow. 

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/maysnow 

1 minute ago, cyclone77 said:

Early planting is usually kind of a waste of time anyway.  Nothing really takes off until we start getting the warm/humid nights consistently, which is usually June.  Everything explodes in growth then, so if you planted something late it would usually catch up to whatever was planted early/successfully anyway.

Very true, I definitely get antsy once the annuals start popping up and trees begin to leaf out. Plus it seems lately the growing season has extended well into October/early November for certain plants.

Looking at the Euro makes me glad i've held off planting the victory garden. Wife always insists on waiting until May 15th, this year she is going to be right.

1 hour ago, beavis1729 said:

Here is the AWSSI index for Winter 2019-20, produced by the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC).  As expected, the past winter in Chicago was categorized as "mild", which is the weakest of the 5 categories (mild, moderate, average, severe, extreme).

Current winter map here, along with an explanation of the AWSSI at the bottom of the page:  https://mrcc.illinois.edu/research/awssi/indexAwssi.jsp

Details/graphs for specific cities here:  https://mrcc.illinois.edu/AWSSI/chart.html

 

Well this sure is fun to play around with. Looks like an "average" winter for Minneapolis. 51.5" of snow fell which is 2.9" below normal so pretty close there. We actually had a snowcover streak of 97 days this winter which is surprising given how mild it was, that definitely pushed us out of the "moderate" category. 

Steady rain with a few heavier downpours all morning. 0.94” in the neighborhood gauge with more on the way. Needed a good soaker just sucks to have a job where you work outdoors in this weather. 

7.3” looks to be the final snow total for April 2020. It’s been a dry month here as well, only 0.86” of precipitation so the majority has been in frozen form.

Honestly it’s nice to have a dry April for a change. The Mississippi flooding isn’t close to as bad as previous years as we also had a gradual melt off. Some of my favorite metro area trails through the bottomlands along the river were flooded most of the previous two years and are already almost good to go.

Beautiful weekend on tap once again. Sitting outside and some of the honeysuckle and birch are beginning to leaf out. I see the large oak also is budding.

Typical springtime spread in temps across the state today.

New record low and record low max for 4/14 in Rochester Minnesota. 

4/14/20: High 26 Low 8

Previous record: Low max 32 Low 14  

Picked up another inch today in some impressive snow squalls that rolled through.

Our two day storm total of 6.6” makes this the 3rd April in a row with a 6” storm including the record breaking 15.8” blizzard of April 13-16 2018. 

Storm total of 5.4” here.

2” in the last 75 minutes. 

Wow massive Cotton balls right now, probably 2"/hr under this band.

Rippage now and stacking. 2" accumulated on the deck but we had many hours earlier of light snow with not much accumulation. Hard to stack it deep during the day in mid April

Been MIA for awhile, lots of non COVID related stuff happening in life for me lately. 

Have had steady light snow this morning, nothing heavy besides a few bouts of bigger fluffy flakes but we've accumulated a 1/2" on the deck and grassy surfaces. Helping refresh my nearly melted driveway piles. The metro reached 60 yesterday and we've had some warmer days this spring then the past few years so soil temperatures are running in the mid 40s. I think my backyard will be 20-ish miles northwest of the heavier bands, already been missed to the south by better returns this morning. The Minnesota River seems to be the dividing line. 

The GFS really whiffed one this one with its southern solution. At least the 3k NAM picked up on the trends as soon as it got into range. Hoping for 4-6" IMBY. Could be our 3rd year in a row with a 6" storm in April. I think someone between Red Wing and Rochester will pick up 12" 

Can't wait to see those 3' totals up by you Bo. 

With model trends this season I have to say congrats St. Louis. 

Low of -9F and 9” snow-depth. Unfortunately snowpack will take a hit this weekend. Starting to notice the sun angle doing work even on these bitterly cold days.

Low of -1F this morning.

Ended up with 2.0” imby. Much bigger totals west. Impressive considering this time yesterday the forecast was something like 40% chance of snow showers.