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Looks like a general 1-3" around the head of the lake with 6-8" being reported on the Iron Range W/NW of me. Still snowing that way too, but it's a narrow band. Duluth picked up 3.3", so they are within an inch of beating the snow season record.
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~1" of snow here this morning, and under a WSW for Lake, and Cook counties. Could end up with 3-6" here by tomorrow morning, but I'm right on the edge so we'll see what happens. South shore getting slammed with a foot or better tonight.
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Well, Duluth will be inching a little closer to snow season record. As I mentioned in an earlier post here, April will have some surprises. Some light rain moving through right now, but later tonight into tomorrow will be the the wintery scenario, especially WI into the UP MI, and maybe even MSP.
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Very nice here. Low to mid 60's the last couple days with some low 70's being reported in the area.. Cooler by the lake with mid 50's, but that's normal. Today going to be another warm one in the upper 60's - low 70's, but reality hits with the coming storm passage for a chance of snow this weekend, especially into Monday. LOL But that's more normal mid April weather.
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Posted this a few months ago in the Holiday 2022 thread for July 4, 2023. That approaching front should stir things up for the evening in the western sub with rising temps.
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My forecast for Father's Day, and Juneteenth (18th & 19th). Exiting front with high pressure moving in keeping things pleasant, although a little cool across the lakes. More shower/storm potential moving in from the west. There may still be a stationary boundary affecting the southern sub, tho.
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Happy Easter everyone. Hope your weekend has been good.
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Yeah, temps are going to be well above normal for a few days. As long as we don't get heavy rain on top of the quick melting, we should be OK.
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Good call here. Some showers with poss thunder moving through.
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43 here today. Went to my daughter's for Easter meal with family. Sun was warm. Felt good.
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50's n 60's next week will feel nice. Rapid snowmelt, tho, will cause flooding issues. High water content with a robust snowpack this year. Duluth needs 4.1" of snow to beat their record, and TH 7NW needs 8.5". Going to be tight, but still have a 4 week window, or so, to do it in, and Duluth would be an easier reach.
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Prelim data in for March. Pretty avg. Charts are 5/10 yr trends respectively.
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Looks like 2-6" for the shore this morning. Drifted pretty good for a while early on, but snow became a little more wet, and mixed with sleet during the wee hours. I had 5" while co-op only reported 2" at the lakeshore this morning. I reported in at midnight, but the sleet, very wet light snow mix compacted it down while adding, so still 5". And as I'm writing this, another band of mod snow moving through for garnish LOL
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Agreed!
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Just had a band of thundersleet move through. Pea-sized stuff. Pretty cool. Don't get see that very often, or thundersnow.
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Heavy snow band moved in with winds 40+. Vis down to 1 block. Very cool! 1/2 block now with very heavy snow Vis dropped to 100" or so at one point. That was a very cool snow band with the wind. Hope to see a little more of that today before things get too warm later tonight.
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Forecast hasn't changed. N WI is under ice storm warning, so it could get pretty ugly for them. I-Falls under blizzard warning. Rare for them. I'm curious to see how the forecast for the shore actually turns out.
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Staring tomorrow, looks like I'll be dealing with high winds off the lake, snow, frz rn. What a mess! Looks like 3-6" plus 0.25" of ice with it. Possible thunder in the mix, too. AARGH. Western areas of the state into the Dakotas going to get hammered with 1-2' of snow and high winds. My granddaughter lives an hour south of Fargo, so she's in the bullseye for serious blizzard conditions.
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Snow band came through for an hour around 10 am. Flakes got up to 50c, and even golf ball size. Winds were calm. That was a beautiful sight! Picked up a quick inch of fluff.
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Check my sig, and you can see what DLH, TH 7NW needs, although TH 7NW is behind in reporting. He/she likes to send in data once a week or so, so should be updated soon. Next weeks storm could do the trick.
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As soon as we break the snow season record...all in
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1-2" only for the area. Dry air did the pac-man. Now another couple inches coming up but with lots of wind starting tonight into tomorrow. Up to 50+ mph possible.
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Good call for this day.
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Just some historical notes here. Duluth wx obs were downtown near the lakeshore up until the late 40's, when it moved to the current location 5 miles inland. Would be similar to Chicago. Different climos at those locations. Bigger swings in max/min temps at current site. The lake tends to soften the daily diurnal range than current obs site. MSP was downtown until the 30's, when it moved to it's current site. Both arpt sites went ASOS in the 90's, which put the readings more out around the tarmacs. Current instrument islands were set up during the 2000's I believe. This story is probably very similar to all current major airport set ups. The current set ups are ideal for airport ops, not necessarily for climate monitoring. CRN sites were set up for that, but very short records. 15 yrs worth right now. When all said, and done we try to gleam the best we can from all records that are biased to some degree. And yes, we base our records off the data we have because, well, that's all we have. I've seen the UHI effect in small towns. One record I looked at moved from in town for most of its life to 1 mile outside into farmland. Avg temp cooled. It is what it is, and, again we do are best to gleam climo from that.
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Looks like 3-5" forecast for the North Shore tonight, then a possible BOOM come next Wed. Records looking like they are going to fall.
