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Snowing pretty good here, definitely more than I was expecting here.

1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Flurries imby. Daytime high of 34 today. 

Same here, saw a few snowflakes fly by as I was unloading the pumpkins for halloween lol

Looks like some light snow/snow showers this afternoon here, and then maybe some minor snow accumulation Monday night into Tuesday.

Chilly day today, high of 37 here, should get into the mid 20s tonight.  Curious to see how we are tomorrow morning, whether we get some snowflakes flying or not.

Foggy spooky kinda day here.  Saw some cams in North Dakota and seems like some places are definitely getting a taste of winter

On 10/9/2023 at 6:46 PM, Steve said:

Here we go again…. Let’s hope winter doesn’t disappoint us this year!

By disappoint do you mean too much or too little snow lol

12Z GFS today giving us a friendly reminder that winter will be here soon lol

26 minutes ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

First fantasy land model snowstorm of the season for mby!

lol i saw that and was like "yep that's definitely not gonna happen"

Down to 43 degrees so far, lets see how low we get down to tonight.

43 degrees this morning with some light rain moving in.  850 mb temps look to be a few degrees below freezing but surface level is still way too warm to see any white stuff.

2 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

The first mention of wet snow mixing in across central Minnesota tomorrow has appeared in the MPX afternoon forecast discussion.
 

Widespread frost outside the metro and widespread freeze up north this weekend into early next week. Stuck in the low 50s here for awhile. 

Yep looks like it: https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MPX&issuedby=MPX&product=AFD&format=ci&version=1&glossary=1

6 minutes ago, MNstorms said:

Weather.gov showed 92F for max.

Yep I saw 92 also, looks like summer is trying to fight back lol

Tons of thunderstorms last night and this morning.  Probably picked up 3/4 inches of rain, chipping away at the drought!

Finally some rain starting to move into the MSP area.

32 minutes ago, hawkeye_wx said:

Exceptional drought, the highest level, is now expanding.

 

Hopefully the next storm can help the drought situation a little bit.

3 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

With the days quickly shortening I thought it was time to post an update on where we stand with the 3rd consecutive summer of flash drought in Minneapolis. The epic winter of 22/23 has blunted the YTD impact compared to last year.
 

April 2023: 2.39” (-0.52”   Ave 2.91”)

May 2023: 1.62” (-2.29”   Ave 3.91”) 

June 2023: 0.93” (-3.65”   Ave 4.58”) 

July 2023: 2.57” (-1.49”   Ave 4.05”) 

August 2023: 2.29” (-2.05”  Ave 4.34”)

 September 2023: (Through 9/20)  0.64” (-1.35”    Ave 1.99”)                

YTD: 17.79” (-7.44”   Ave 25.23”)

Maybe we can make it up again in the winter lol

Got about 0.3 inches of rain here as well, we need a lot more but at least this was something.

8 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Typical early autumn weather today. Scattered showers and mild temps. Won’t amount to much at all, maybe 0.25” but a nice change of pace to see something falling from the sky. 

Was a pretty nice day, had a couple showers go through when we were at the Edina Art Festival outside today, had to hide under someone’s tent when the downpour came lol

As for the drought situation, I don’t think we have seen much in terms of rainfall in the past several weeks.  Hopefully we can get some soon.

Yesterday felt like a nice change from temperatures soaring into the upper 90s to yesterday’s high being around 65.  Also starting to notice some trees are beginning to change colors and drop their leaves.

Just a little teaser from the lovely CFS model lol

Currently 96 with a heat index of 109, another toasty day out there!

1 hour ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

95/75 at 2pm. Let’s get to 100!

Now 97 degrees at 3:15pm, just 3 more degrees till 100!

31 minutes ago, Brian D said:

Cool, gray day here with a light fog, and mist this morning. 0.45" of rain in the hours before sunrise as scattered stms moved through. And yet, just a couple hrs drive south is a sauna.

Yep its already a sauna here.  Currently 90 degrees with a heat index of 101 outside.

Only 9am and it’s almost 80 degrees.  I think we may have a shot at 100 degrees which would break the record high for today.