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.
-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.
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.
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.
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.
-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.
-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