Brian D

Lake ice as of yesterday. Generally new/thin ice with thin/medium thick in the bays. Thick ice in the N bays of L Superior.

Sorry for your loss. My ma passed in Jan 21'. She lived out in the higher terrain N of town. I would also let her know when bigger snows were coming or svr wx. She was in a nursing home for a couple yrs in town before passing on, but she appreciated the heads up when she was in her home.

2.3" imby. Mammoth aggregate was such a bonus. Those flakes must have been cloud dancing before hitting the floor. Up N they got 6-10" in Cook county with 3-4" in N Lake/St. Louis County area. Had to look at CoCoRahs map to get totals. Usually they plot 1" or greater reports for sure, and some lesser ones, but a little behind this morning. Might be under staffed atm.

Happened only once last year. This year is great. Normally don't see flakes this big all that often.

SN right now with massive flakes exceeding 2" at times. Golf ball flakes and lots of quarters under calm winds.

TBH, I like Feb for the sub. It's going to be something to watch unfold. It could end up be a rather wild month.

System Jan 9-10th still in the gov model eye. My modelling method is showing potential for that time, so someone is going to get hit pretty good it's looking like at this time. I think the best I could hope for is some LES action. But we also have potential svr wx on the S side of this as well to contend with. Very Spring like system again.

Looks like a couple inches of snow today with another system bringing some fr drz/rn over to lgt sn overnight Mon. Keep the glacier slowly growing.

Quick 0.5" of fluff. Looking at 2-4" tomorrow.

Snow showers moving through. Big, fat flakes again like the other day. Up to quarter size (~1") with some elongated ones even bigger under calm conditions.

Been through so many storms, but the 91' Halloween Storm was one of the best hits. It started Thurs eve (Halloween eve) around 5 pm in Duluth were I was working construction. I had left the Army that July, and picked up some work doing roofing. Happened to be in Duluth when the snow started around 5 pm as we were knocking off for the day. Snow was light on the way to my girlfriend's place just N of TH, but it got going pretty good that night. That 1st round yielded around 12" as recorded by the TH co-op observer (on the shore) that morning. We may of had a little more at her place. A break in the action with just some light snow Friday morning allowed crews to clean up pretty well. That afternoon, tho, the main storm hit. My good friend (girlfriend's brother-in-law) and I picked up some whiskey before heading to my girl's place. I had came into town to visit him for a while that day. It was a rough ride N of town. Snow had become very heavy not long after dark with blizzard conditions, and by morning we were snowed in with drifts at least waist high in her driveway. They would have been bigger if not for some trees. TH co-op measured 24" (36" stm total), and I personally think there was a bit more out there. It was heavier, wet snow, too. The Lake helped out some I'm sure. Totals like this are common over on the UP, but that is normally lighter, drier snow. Sometimes they get larger totals of wetter stuff. I think weatherbo (wonder what happened to him) recorded nearly 30" of slush (had a glacial blue tint) in a late Spring storm at his place 3 yrs ago or so.

Snow showers this morning. Might have eeked out 0.1" of fluff with that heavier band that went through. +/- sd's across NE MN this morning. Keeping my eye out for something decent 7-10 days out. My modelling method is showing potential, it looks like gov models are picking up on it, too.

Been 8 years since the sub as a whole has seen a colder Dec.

Here in TH, Dec ended with 0.65"(avg 1.56") precip with 6.1" (avg 13.6") snow. Another drier month. Oct-Dec ranked 11th driest. Mean temp (adjusted for 7am readings) was 17.8 (36th coldest). A little colder than 2022 (18.5) which was the last colder Dec here. 2017 was 14.8, and 2013 was 9.0. TH co-op switched from pm readings to am readings Oct 2019. So some adjustment is needed in comparing. Precip for the year was 25.54" (avg 31.72") which is 38th driest out of 129 unique totals in the record.

Decent forecast. Happy New Year ev1!