Brian D

Prelim data in for March. Another warm month in the books. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

0.74" of rain from Sun pm thru Mon pm. Nice temps on tap in the 50's coming for the week. Should start to see green emerging.

Overcast n rainy for me today. Peak eclipse time was 2:05 pm. It got a little darker here akin to near sunset lighting with heavy overcast. Not enough to get the street lights to come on, but noticeable. It was around 70% up my way.

Looking at posts on grading the Winter season, I'll say it was a D my way. Winter is generally Nov-Mar here, and we've had just enough to keep it from an epic fail. But A+ on the heating bill.

Windy off the Lake today as system approaches up to 30-35 mph. Looks like a good rain shield to my south. Messy wx starting later in the evening, but the precip will be welcome.

Basically running 24-36 hrs behind in my forecasts for this stretch. Mentioned a front 7th-8th which ended up being a weak trough, with a new system coming in on the 9th. Good luck in finding a good spot for eclipse viewing, as those limited areas will probably be quite packed due to cloud issues.

It'll being a rainy day for me, so when the eclipse hits it's peak for my area, a little added darkening to the gloomy day is all I get. Might be enough to get the street lights to come on. Monday Rain. High near 43. Breezy, with a northeast wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Back in Feb 1979, when I was in school, we had a total eclipse nearby here. I remember the teacher had us poke a hole in a piece of construction paper, and aim it at the Sun during the eclipse. And had us lay a piece of paper flat behind it. You could watch the shadow of the moon on that flat paper slowly cover part of the Sun. No eclipse glasses back then, at least not for us. Got about as dark as when a strong storm complex moves in, and the street lights come on. Here's the path of that eclipse from NASA files. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEplot/SE1979Feb26T.pdf Jan of 1925 was the last time a total eclipse went over the Great Lakes. Started right over N MN. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhistory/SEplot/SE1925Jan24T.pdf

Didn't you have a big one last year on Mayday? Record snow for May I thought.

@weatherbo under the gun for a couple days. Light snow falling here atm.

For Memorial Day, looks like some wet weather will be moving through that weekend. Clearing out in the N sub on Monday.

For Mother's day, I'm expecting a storm system to affect our region. Here in MN, it's also MN Fishing Opener weekend.

And the "Wolf's Head" of western Lake Superior over the top keeping hungry eyes on that bird.

Close call here. Had system a little more N, but it is moving through S sub the next couple days. There is a weak trough over the N areas. Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

Added mine in the Holiday Forecast thread a few weeks ago. Front moving into the region. Will it move through in time, or hang out long enough to create possible cloudy conditions?

Just looking at SWE of this system, Monday's snow was really wet. There was a little rn mixed in between 2-4 am (couple hundreths). TH co-op data: 2024-03-25 0.69 7.5 7 31 26 2024-03-26 0.55 2.0 8 33 27 2024-03-27 0.37 4.0 10 27 16

The storyboard switched to a new one. LOL Best save them, and open in Paint, and resave as GIF. I do that with all large pic files to upload them here.

I reported in during the event, and ended with 14" here in TH. Co-op observer had 13.5". Higher totals just outside town in the hills. There was a 21.2" report N of town yesterday, If they give an update, should be around 24-25". Very much needed this.

Snow is slowly winding down now. Radar showing the E fetch turning from the N. Looks like 4-5" on the deck, but it has drifted some.

Snowing really good now. Radar showing increasing dbz along the North Shore.

The daily data shown at MRCC from Oct 1863-April 1864 is robust. Nothing missing. 16.6" is the final value for the season.

10" yesterday imby, and we got a little rn last night before the band turned to snow. A couple inches of powder, and snowin good atm. Told my grandson a couple months ago, watch, it'll snow a lot in the Spring if we don't get much over Winter. Lookin at totals from yesterday, a pretty good swath of 12-17" along the North Shore. Add today's snow, when all said n done, I'd say a pretty good storm.

Heavier snow band blossomed right over the head of the lake with moisture feed coming in from the S/SW. Radar looks anemic, then the lake air interaction causes a blow up of snow. That's enhancement for ya.

Radar really chunky right now. Heavier band moved through, and could be a bit more heavier stuff with what I see coming up from the Twin Cities around sunset or so. Unless the temps rise enough for a mix/rn scenario.

With 7" imby this morning, another 3"+ has accum since then with a a good size band heading my way again in a couple hrs.