No way I'm buying that GFS run, or the runs before it. If it were on to something you'd think the GEM would have started bumping northward quite significantly by now. Like others have pointed out it'll prob be a compromise of the north and south camp lining up fairly similar to the last event. This one has a fairly narrow corridor of heavy accums tho unlike last storm. Thinking we'll be riding the northwest fringe of this one again unfortunately.
lol @ how the clipper over northern MN dissolves into nothingness as it reaches this far south later this evening. Gotta love it.
A little early for grades, but this winter is def looking like an F- at this point.
At least unlike last time (GHD3) the pattern doesn't look hopeless for the 10-15 days following it. That made missing that event even worse than it was lol.
Down to 9 here this morning.
Just some scattered patches of dirty/crusty snow where the drifts were once deepest. Other than that dormant/brown grass with scattered dead leaves swirling about.
A miss southeast would truly be a kick in the crotch to the majority of the DVN area. I'd rather the heavy snow miss northwest so then at least we could get a decent rain/moisture event out of it. The way this pos winter is going I'm sure it'll whiff southeast, or get grazed with a non-event duster.
GFS shows over 2" of QPF with the big system later next week for a good chunk of the sub. At MLI they've only had 2.07" total precip since Dec 1st so that would be quite impressive if we can get 2.5 months of precip from this next storm.
Feel exactly the same. I'm kind of in 6"+ storm or just keep it mode at this point. It's been so dry (and extremely boring) that even a heavy rainer would be exciting at this point lol.
Not trying to troll or anything but I really wouldn't mind a soaking rainer. I've never seen so much residual salt on area roads, it's like there was a surplus of salt and it had to be used this season no matter what lol. The parking lot at work looks like the great salt lake desert.
Temps pushing 40 today, and you can tell there's a bit of spring fever starting up. Seen people out walking, car washes extremely busy, etc. The sun combined with the temps actually does make it feel warmer than it is after the recent cold.
Had a few flurries yesterday.
-2 this morning, 11th below zero day of the season. Tomorrow we poke above freezing. Time to get rid of this mangy crust.
Despite little in the way of snow the past few weeks we've done a pretty nice job of maintaining what we have received, as we've had at least an inch of snow on the ground since around New Years. Have about 2ish inches of mangy crust out there, with a little fresher powder on top.