Brian D

All snow now. A little sheen of ice underneath to make travel treacherous.

Temps are currently running 31-34 in the area. 34 here in town. Precip is mixed at the moment. Can hear the pinging on the windows. Ice forming on the deck, and sidewalks.

Totals jacked up this aftrn since the early morning forecast, and ice a factor for some, too. Winds have picked up to gusts of 40mph with the first batch of heavy snow on the doorstep. Let it rock!

Yeah, 1-2' for sure. Blizzard warning for the North Shore with winds up to 45 mph. BRING IT!!

Wed looking like sloppy weather with heavy wet snow, and freezing rain mixed in during the day. What will be interesting is the lingering trough into the weekend. Could be a good set up for lake banding. The inland areas of the North Shore should do really well this week.

President's Day looking cold as well. Again, watch the southern areas.

For Valentine's Day, looking cold with some weak activity in the north. Watch for some potential energy affecting the southern areas.

Wonder if that's in a small valley. Temps can really dip in that situation just like here in NE MN. Some locations are perfect for big temp drops.

Colder season blues. Tends to be quite cloudy. Some areas even more than others. Happens here at times, too.

Another couple inches of wet snow this morning. Looking forward to the bigger totals next week starting Tues night into Thurs.

Interesting.

Not sure if I have mentioned this before, but I'm using a 10 yr running avg for the trending. Decadal trending seems to be normative. If you use 5 yrs, you do get a better picture of the ups, and downs we've experienced over time. Some folks like using that to see how variable our weather has been on shorter timescales. If you guys would like to see both, I can do that. Just hit the "Thanks" button if you'd like both. "Like" if you want just the 10 yr. like I have been doing.

About 3" of fluff fell yesterday, and now another very cold day with highs barely in the teens. Just like back on the 3rd when Duluth had a high of 11 (tied 5th for low max). 1972 -2 1976 8 1886 9 1940 10 1895/1919/77/85/2022 11 Yesterday was in the upper teens, so just a little colder than that. Easterly fetch coming up, so that'll keep temps running a little warmer with the lake, and generally cloudy, unfortunately. Snow, and sun make for really bright days. Really like that. Possible storm next week. But we shall see. NWS Duluth dry humor on the their story board today

Light snow moved in late this morning. Looking at a couple inches. Been very zzzz the last few days.

Prelim data in for Nov, and we have another warmer Nov in the record book, as well as the Fall season.

Here are the winners in the snowfall reports from yesterday. Very cold and windy today. Highs of 20 this morning with 35-40 mph wind gusts kicking up dropping temps during the day.

Couple inches here. Just enough to cover everything good, and make it look like winter again.

Steady light snow this morning. Forecast went up to 2-4". Close to a half inch so far.

Recent NAM tomight has a heavy band moving right into NE MN. DLH mets were still a little unsure this past evening if that might happen, so I could get 3-6". They did up it from nothing to 1-2", so we shall see.

Unfortunately, that'll end up in my lap at some point. ISH!

Just going to miss out on the next snow chance, just some light stuff in the mix for me. SE MN (Twin Cities), and WI get to have fun with this one.

Inexperienced staff. Not used to the weather there. Not sure how often staff rotates, but even up here that can happen. I've literally emailed them at times to give a little advice with the lake. What I've seen over the years. Example: Last winter there was a long fetch from the NE coming from open water there across a nearly ice filled head of the lake. They had snow totals forecast around the head of the lake very low. Sent an email that evening letting them know that the snow would come much harder with all that ice keeping temps really cold, and so causing the moisture to precip out much quicker, and stronger than they were anticipating. The next morning, they up the totals more, but still low balled it for the downtown/west Duluth area that gets hit hard on conditions like that. Models can only give so much at times. Experience with lakes helps lots.

Weenie goes stiffy on that one LOL

Next is Groundhogs Day. Looking like a system moving through with potential energy on the southern end of it. Something to watch, and see if any significant development happens there.

New year around the corner again. Is it me, or is time really flying. Anyway, The New Years day forecast is in the 2022 thread coupled with New Years eve, so I'll start here with MLK Day. Storm watch is what it's looking like. Might be a little something for the SE areas, too