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Source: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/twin_cities/snowfall.html Okay so technically this is calendar year not snow season.

I'd still rather live up in Two Harbors with @Brian D or in one of the snow belts, but coming from the Chicagoland area, MSP was a massive improvement in prolonged winter conditions.

Minneapolis average annual snowfall is 54" so I'm not sure where this 9" greater then Chicago is coming from, unless we are talking about median. Here is annual snowfall over the past 10 seasons. Yes we've had some big time clunkers but the retention is a much greater here then in the Chicagoland area. Also worth noting Minneapolis averages about 8" less of liquid equivalent precipitation so our climate is drier by comparison. 2019-2020 51.5 2018-2019 77.1 2017-2018 78.3 2016-2017 32.0 2015-2016 36.7 2014-2015 32.4 2013-2014 69.8 2012-2013 67.7 2011-2012 22.3 2010-2011 86.6 AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAYS * WITH SNOW "ON GROUND" * --------------- * DAYS INCHES * 100 ... 1 * 79 ... 3 * 54 ... 6 * 34 ... 9 * 24 ... 12

@beavis1729 I feel like I tell you this all the time but move to Minneapolis if you want more consistent snowcover and frozen lakes while still living in a large urban area.

Will be a typical dry and seasonable MSP winter week ahead with the exception of Wednesday. Might even get a below zero low tomorrow night or late week which have been severely lacking this year. Still have a crusty 7" snow depth but the "warm" 35F temps wrecked havoc on the deck snow which didn't have the frozen insulating ground. Puppy sighting in the upper left corner of the yard.

Flipped to light drizzle/rain with some wet flakes under the lighter returns through most of this afternoon and evening. Total slopfest imby. We definitely lost some snowpack and added about 3/4” of moisture to the 6-7” that remain. Crazy at one point blizzard warnings were only a county or two west of us. Never had much of any wind here. Southern metro and points south did well. In fact there was nearly twice as much snowfall only 20 miles south of me. My prospective of this storm might have been completely different. Guess I’ll see tomorrow when I ski Welch Village which picked up 5”

3” of new snow. 9” depth. There’s just no cold air.

There’s just no cold air. Light snow all night but temps stayed above freezing so doesn’t look like much if any accumulated. We might have lost snow depth

HRRR says only 3” here this round. Guess I’ll see in the morning.

Over 30” on the season. 6 otg with a nice refresher storm tonight and we’ve been abnormally dry since late summer.

North central Iowa should do well. We lost some of what fell in round one due to temps holding in the mid 30s during the lull. 33.1F on the PWS but we should fall into the 20s in the next couple hours. Dusting so far with round 2

Round 2 underway. Expecting to be slightly underwhelmed, but holding out hope we can achieve our 4th 6” storm of the season.

Waiting on round two to ramp up. Looks like things have shifted south a bit and I’m now on the far northern edge of the heavier snow. 4-7” of additional accumulation expected across the metro.

Flake size has been great so far. Light to moderate snow but stacking very efficiently

This project will never be done. They are doing a deep underground storm water storage system similar to what Chicago attempted with the big dig. over an inch of new snow so far today. Cotton-balls falling

Today’s job site right off Interstate 35W south of downtown

Before the snow started

Tried to post the backyard webcam but apparently it’s over 1.95mb in size and it’s difficult to resize from my phone while working outside in this weather.

Steady snow now. All frozen

Changeover has begun. Dusting already

33 and light rain/drizzle here. 6-10” forecast later this afternoon and tonight. Certainly been a MN/IA winter so far. Might push 40” on the season after all is said and done with this system.

NWS going bullish with snow totals, and I can’t blame them. Model trends certainly in our favor up here. Going to be a nowcast event, someone will get screwed.

Should be a nice prolonged light snow event here to refresh our slowly diminishing snowpack.

Another day of dense fog and a dab of snow throughout the day. Snowpack holding strong at 8” with temps busting low today. Didn’t break 19F