MN Transplant

Brother in Middletown is now all snow and 33.1. 42.3 and rain in my yard

A bit of sleet mixed with rain. 42.6

I haven’t been using it, but it seems like the idea is that it is an augmentation to the weekly drought monitor. Having looked at some reports, it also seems to serve as a journal entry for some observers. https://media.cocorahs.org/docs/ConditionReportingGuide_2.0C.pdf

And DCA hits 80

Temps are all over the place this morning. Low 30s to low 50s.

I had measurable snow Memorial Day weekend one year when I was a kid. Mid-April is nothing!

Already a plus departure at BWI for April, and will be there for IAD/DCA after today.

Imagine trying to get an accurate snowfall measurement.

Check out that beauty of a radar around Minot, ND right now. ~20" on the ground and I bet it is just puking snow there. COD NEXRAD: MBX

86.0 here. It is warm.

If anyone needs a snow fix

The NAM and GFS are spitting out those kinds of numbers, but the Euro is “only” up to about 2’. ND is cold, but dry. Most of the state has an average snowfall under 3’. So, this is significant.

The NAM likes NW ND better. Model battle for the 14 people that live there!

Low of 38.3 on my hill. Not even close.

It is coming. It always does. For 2-3 weeks, just long enough to fry our lawns.

The GFS image was the total 16-day period. Which, absurdly, had three different snowstorms traversing northern MN. Minneapolis’s #1 storm is 28”+, which puts it on par with the Knickerbocker (#1 DCA) and 2016 (#1 BWI) storms.

April.

The word of the day is dreary. 1.76" on the week.

C+. Dec/Feb were absolute disasters, but the early Jan storm was timed well and the month was appropriately cold.

Heading south yesterday, the foliage really started popping at about the NC/VA border.

Gusted to 43 and I’m usually low by 5-10.

Not sure how it is going up there, but road tripping down here!

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There isn't much out there that is public that I've found. There is a listserv that I'm on that has been discussing it, and they listed LWX as one of the locations. Sure enough, I went to the Wyoming sounding site and it was a no-go today.