mnchaserguy

People reporting 6-7” nearby. Hard to know exactly with all the blowing and drifting. Didn’t quite live up to the hype but still a decent storm. .

Yeah looks like we will be lucky to get to 5-6” at this rate. .

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. It’s snowing pretty hard despite what the radar is showing. Models always showed a less intense but consistent and prolonged moderate snowband pivoting over central Minnesota which is where the majority of our accumulation is supposed to come from. The initial heavy band was never supposed to last long or add up to much. Radar looks about what I would expect. .

Winds picking up quick. Should continue to increase from here over the next few hours. .

Wouldn’t let me attach the screenshot for some reason. .

Those crashing temps are right on our doorstep.

Models did a pretty good job of picking that up. They showed a heavy snow band for us but not much accumulation until closer to noon. .

Snowing hard now. Not much has stuck yet but it’s starting to turn white in the street. If this band can stick around for a while, this will start adding up quick. .

0z GFS has bumped up its total for MSP. .

I think the two main things to worry about is how quickly things change from rain to snow in the morning and how much of the backside of the band pivots over us tomorrow night. .

If this pans out, it’d be cool to read a summary of how this all played out. This wasn’t even on my radar on Christmas Day, and within 24 hours it started to look like a major snowstorm could be heading our way. It’d be interesting to read from someone more knowledgeable than me how things changed that much over such a short time frame. .

Wow. Pretty crazy how much consistency there is among so many models. .

0z NAM ramping up even more .

It’s crazy how quickly this thing evolved. Just a couple days ago I was talking about going ice fishing tomorrow. That won’t be happening now. .

My wife had no idea until I mentioned it to her a couple hours ago. .