Brian D

Cold day here with am temps -sd's and currently running in the mid teens in the early pm. 0.1" of snow from the snow showers yesterday. Rapid warm up for the weekend with a chance of rain before temps go back to more avg early next week.

Throwing in Marquette, MI record, shows similar. Should make a note here. MAR was 2400 readings until Jan 1979. Then went Co-op in May 1979 at 2100 readings. Then to 0800 readings in Aug 1996. Winter time adjustment would avg + 1-1.5F. That makes the avg DJF much closer in the rankings for this season, and 97-98/2001-02. 1877-1878 - 30.7 *2023-2024 - 29.1 1997-1998 - 28.4 2001-2002 - 27.4 1931-1932 - 27.1 Starting with 0800 time, MMTS was put in place, so a digital set up locks in the time, and auto resets I believe. When using Max/Min set up, observers would have to manually reset when they took readings, leaving the actual reading time a bit in flux as people are not robots.

Looks like a solid 2nd place for DLH this winter, but still 3F cooler than 1877/78. 1877-1878 - 28.0 *2023-2024 - 25.1 1997-1998 - 22.4 1881-1882 - 22.0 1930-1931 - 21.5 MSP will have this one in the bag by 1F. *2023-2024 - 30.0 1877-1878 - 28.9 1930-31/2001-02 - 26.8 2011-2012 - 26.2 1881-1882 - 26.0 And just a few miles down river at LaCrosse a solid 2nd about 2 1/2F cooler than 1877/78. 1877-1878 - 34.2 *2023-2024 - 31.6 1881-1882 - 29.6 2001-2002 - 29.2 1997-1998 - 28.8 Looks like MSP is a hotspot up this way in the our part of the sub.

Light snow with W/NW winds up to 25-30. Temps peaked around 1 pm in the mid 40's, and now down to upper teens at almost 5 pm. Can feel this old house breathing the cold air. Chilly!

This will just be a rude slap in the face this evening/tomorrow.

Been a day or two since I was able post anything like this. A little winter in the offing.

Personally, as horrible of a winter as it has been my way, it's also great to experience one from almost 150 yrs ago. Reminds me of the winters in NJ back in my Army days. Folks would complain on the little bit of cold that would show up, and I would just laugh at them. "This is nothing, man. You guys don't know what a real winter is like." Of course, most of my buddies were southern boys, so I get it.

Birds flying around, dry leaves blowing around in mid Feb. Love it! Glad to have experienced such a mild winter that's so similar to 1877/78. Looking ahead, I see GFS wants to spin up a storm around leap day. My modelling suggests LP in the region around that time. There is potential. A little winter would be nice to see as well.

So-so cast here. HP over CA, but southern LP was much further S along the Gulf. Boundary to the W. Looks like some energy moving into the region on the 20th with little fanfare before a stronger LP moves in around the 22nd as a rain maker in the S areas.

You need SWE data along with that analysis. That would be helpful, but don't think there's any early data with that metric. If there is, take a look at that. Early data also tends to have more missing data, as well. Oh, and that stn is also threaded. Actual proximity to the lakeshore, and elevation in it's history is a big player.

Awesome man! Yeah, bringing new ones in is soo cool. Cherish every moment, even when they get older, and a bit naughty, and think they know everything. LOL You never know what the future brings. Losing my youngest was/is the toughest thing I've ever gone through. May you, and your family be greatly blessed!

Just looking ahead, July will be the month to watch this summer. If the pattern I see pans, a hot, dry stretch is in the offing in mid July. Expecting 100's. We shall see.

Add 23 Nov too as a warm day 1905 - 55 1820/2001/06/21 - 54 1907/98/2009/11 - 52 1902/2014 - 51 1908 - 50

Just looking at April 1820, it was very warm on some of the days. These are 1400 hr readings. It would be so nice to have daily data going back centuries. I bet we would be amazed at some of the readings from way back then. April 10 1977 - 88 1910 - 81 1820/2006 - 79 1955 - 78 1930/2011 - 76 April 19 1985 - 87 1987 - 84 1923 - 83 1820/1915 - 82 1908 - 81 April 23 1990 - 86 2009 - 85 1820 - 84 1925 - 82 1942 - 81 April 24 1820 -85 1962 - 84 1939 - 83 1921/42/90 - 81 1915 - 80

Decent call here. Not a big storm, but an aggressive little low moving through along the frontal boundary. Take what you can get!

What I can glean from Ft Snelling written notes, Dec 1857 was mild, and Jan 1858 was too, but Feb turned cold. My monthly data charts confirm this.

There's a possibility that the W sub experienced similar conditions back in the 1700's. Tree ring reconstruction of ENSO shows this. Data would be very nice, but it's all we have. And of course, other teleconnections need to be in play, as well, to get what we have now. I've had this chart for a few years. Sorry, don't remember where I saved it from. Not a big fan of tree ring data, but it can be useful sometimes.

For some who have, or may wish to ever come skiing up along the North Shore, sad news. Lutsen's main lodge burned down last week. It was built in the 40's, and was a replacement from a fire back then, too. Lutsen's history is well over 100 years (since the late 1800's I believe). Just read it in our free local paper. I don't use social media, so I'm sure others knew long before I did. Fire Marshall is investigating, so at some point, should know what caused it. Not that skiing, or any winter sports is enjoying a good year this year. They will rebuild, but that will take time. How it will affect their operations in general. not sure, especially for next season.

0.25" of rain, then 0.2" of snow the last couple days. Temps running seasonably warm with what looks to be more avg temps by next weekend. Very nice wx.

Nice looking meso low moving through S MN with a band of rain, and maybe thunder. Looks like its heading in my direction.

I-Falls record isn't that good. Pretty short. I looked at this and was rather bummed to see how much data is missing prior to 1948.

For Easter this year, I'm expecting a system to be moving through our region on that holiday weekend. A mild start turning wet & stormy, even into April Fools day.

My forecast for St. Patty's day this year looks like CA system moving through the N with potential energy affecting the S sub.

A bit of rain in the offing starting later today with some light snow on the back side. Looks like 0.25-0.50" expected. Take what we can get. Precip needed no matter rn or sn. Then temps cool down to seasonably mild conditions. Been a warm start to the month. Very mellow wx wise.

Prelim data in, and a warmer Jan driven by the stronger anoms in the N sub is in the books. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.