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Definitely would take a good downpour to wash all the remnant salt/grime off the roads. It's good we avoided heavy rains during this massive meltoff for flooding reasons. The bare ground is steadily advancing north, and is now not far from the I-80 corridor in IA/IL.

Welcome to spring! Now have about 6-7" of snow cover left. Snow is not nearly as deep as this time last week, but it still looks like deep winter with a very solid snow pack. Have now had deep snow cover since Dec 29th, but by the end of this week this once impressive glacier will be probably down to scattered piles.

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Extremely dense fog out there at the moment. Several sites around are reporting 1/8 mile vis. Looks like the thermal ridge gets here around midday when we could make a run at 50, and then downhill from there. Still a good 8" of white cement out there.

Not in our sub, but Garden City KS is 74/-10 with 3% humidity, and winds gusting to 48mph.

Made it to 50 both here and at MLI this afternoon. Lots of peeps out walking/jogging and hanging out in their garages. Spring fever in full swing fo sho.

Congrats on the new house Looks like we have a chance at our first 50 degree reading today. Even though the snow is still quite deep you don't have to go too far to the south to get completely out of it, so that should help with temps. Next weekend or early the following week the first 60 degree day looks likely. The Euro shows 60s all the way to the UP by then as well.

About the same here. The remaining glacier is extremely dense.

Last year I downloaded the weatherstar 4000 emulator from this site. http://www.taiganet.com/forum/index.php/topic,4135.0.html Once you download and figure out how to set it up, you can customize it to your liking. There's also a forum with lots of answers to questions you may have from others who have set it up on their pcs. I have it set up to run in the same arrangement that TWC had back in the day, with the cities in the current weather in the same order that it was for example. You can also download different theme songs and insert based on whatever season you're in.

Still 11" here after days of melting. There's lots of melting on the edges of the yard, but the majority of the snowpack is melting much slower.

Yeah one of my coworkers had covid in early to mid November, got the shot (first one) the same day I did and had no symptoms other than the day2 sore shoulder.

Since we're warming up it sure would be nice to have a shot at some convection, but it looks pretty quiet for the next 10 days.

Got the 1st shot last Saturday. Didn't get any symptoms, just a slightly sore shoulder the next day. Shot #2 scheduled for March 20th.

MLI topped out at 47 today. Knocked off a few more inches of snow pack, now down to about 14".

This time of year I'm in lumberjack mode, and usually have a fairly lengthy beard. By late spring I usually hack it back to a long stubble and generally leave it that way till football season.

Made it to 40, MLI and DVN both hit 42. Lost a few inches of snow cover here today. Vis sat shows a huge amount of snow is already gone down to the south, with only northern MO/central IL points north with appreciable snow cover now.

Overachieving here, already 39 here. Easily gonna make the 40s this afternoon.

Yesterday's rain knocked the snowpack down a good inch back to about 17". Already getting that mangy look. Should make a run at 40 today, and be into the 40s tomorrow. Mid-upper 40s look possible by the weekend.

A bit over 32" here. Amounts go up quickly west of here, with MLI over 40", Cedar Rapids over 50". We average somewhere between 30-35" a season so we're already at average for the season.

0.19" of rain so far, but it's winding down more towards a drizzle now. Up to 34, first time above freezing since Feb 4th.

Only a T of snow here today. 80/20 rain/snow right now. Worst bust of the season in a season with underperformers.

I don't even know what to call the stuff that's coming down right now. It's too small to even call pixie dust. I guess frozen microbes would be a better term. Man this thing sure turned into a pos. Funny to think that I was thinking there may even be a chance at T-snow earlier lol. If we end up getting 1/3" out of this I'd consider it a win at this point.

Yeah radar looks pretty terrible in southern IA/northern MO. That's what I get for being optimistic earlier lol. I'll enjoy my 1" of slop and bring on the thaw tomorrow I guess.

Up to 30 degrees for the first time since Feb 4th.

I'm actually kind of torn. Usually once snow starts to get that mangy look and it's getting to this time of the year I'm ready for it to get out as well. Since our snow cover streak will be a solid 2 months next week I'm kind of hoping it hangs around as long as it can. If models started showing a 65 degree torch with convection it'd be hard to root against that though lol.