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0.9” of snow last evening at MSP. 48.5” season to date

Wife has a coworker who lives in Marquette and shared this pic.

The 8.8” of snow at MSP contained 0.75” of water content for a SLR of approx 12:1

Air temp of 1. Heat Island kept us above zero, but still very cold for the second half of March.

14-16” reports down in Red Wing where my ski hill is. Think I’ll “work from home” today…

Low of 6F Snow depth 8” 1-3” coming tomorrow We are so back…

At least those totals verified, albeit further south. It annoys me a lot more when the models put out big numbers and then dry up right at showtime. Next snow event less then 48 hours away!

8.8” storm total at MSP. one last burst of moderate snow rotating through now. We’ll see if it adds anything. 12-14” reports 10 miles south.

It has snowed all afternoon as modeled with visibility between 1-2mi. I have noticed shoveled/plows surfaces have stayed wet instead of accumulating new snow and there has been compaction elsewhere. Spring.

I’m definitely disappointed we missed out on big dog numbers. It looks like 10-14” totals in the southern burbs a few miles south of the airport, but this has still been a quality storm. Snowing all day and top tier time outside with the kids.

MSP was at 8.5” as of 1pm.

Yeah bit of a bust in the metro as the most intense banding ended up ~75 miles south where 20”+ totals are verifying. Still a really high quality storm here at least, we’ll see what the afternoon brings.

Got to hand it to the GFS. Nailed the placement of the jackpot zone many days ago. Today is going to be a lot of fun.