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2 hours ago, beavis1729 said:

There are no words to describe how frustrating this is.  It could have been a Top 10 arctic outbreak for our area, if there were snow cover here and upstream. 

 

At least you can’t blame warm temps for the bare ground this year. It’s been plenty cold just bone dry northwest of the lakes. 

Midnight high of 16 at MSP. Down to 7 at 6am. I’m surprised but the airport was able to hang onto our 1” snow depth through the 1 day warm up. 

I’ll take an April 2018 redux.

Front has moved through. Down to 28 and falling fast after our high of 38 today. Backyard remains snow covered.

1 hour ago, Stevo6899 said:

We may be the last ones to see a substantial snowstorm. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait. South had theirs with ohio valley, east coast next. I believe msp had a 6 incher in december? 

5.5” from a juiced Clipper on December 19th. Pennies outside of that. Can’t get a system to come our way this winter. Only have to go to hour 330 on the GFS for substantial precipitation in my region.

Temps overachieving here. Already up to 34F. The first above freezing temperature of 2025 in Minneapolis. 

4 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

I have no doubt that areas of MN that have bare ground and dont even rise above zero next week will get a 10" wet snowstorm in mid-April.

All of us here know it’s coming too. 

Although snowfall has been paltry this winter locally there has been plenty of seasonable cold. The twin cities have held a 1-2” snow depth since last Thursday. 

0.1” a true dusting this evening. 

-3F overnight low. Temps have shot up to 7 already. Unfortunately it looks like our meager snowpack will be mostly gone come Friday night.

-9F.

Coldest morning this winter so far.

2 hours ago, madwx said:

Down to 2 this morning. A lot of the snow from last week actually sublimated away overnight from the windy and dry conditions. First time I’ve seen that occur at night time

Noticing quite a bit of sublimation in the farm fields this morning here. The high SLR snow definitely plays a part.

MSP managed to drop to -1F before midnight so we recorded an official low below zero yesterday. It’s down to -3F this morning for our 3rd and 4th below zero lows of January. 

We finished with 1.1” here which was enough to push MSP to an even 10” of snowfall on the season. 
 

CAA going strong, 5F currently with a stiff NW wind. 

0.6” reported at 6am, with some light snow since. We had a long stretch of freezing drizzle overnight.

Temps are beginning to crash after holding steady around 26-27F overnight. Today will be the classic midnight high. 

Clipper #2 has brought a fresh dusting of pixie dust so far. Areas a couple counties north of me are going to do well but we should manage ~1” to boost the meager snowpack. Gradient of 2-3” down to 0.5” from north to south across Hennepin County according to the HRRR.

Tonight’s Clipper is trending towards a dusting for my backyard. Near miss to the north. Northern Minnesota is the place to be. 
 

GFS looking quite dry for most of the subforum. 

24hr total of 0.8” at MSP.

The high of 28 today is our warmest temp so far this month.

Technically it’s a different system, (Clipper) but the calendar date lines up so I’ll post here. 

Solid DAB+ in the Twin Cities. Evening commute was a total mess. Don’t know what MSP officially recorded but they did just report a 1” snowdepth at 6pm so at least 0.5”

Hopefully these maps look different next week. 

The Saturday/Sunday clipper is trending much better for Minnesota. Could squeeze out a few inches here but a lot of time for that to change. 

I’ll take this pattern over firestorms.

Must be acclimating because 5F doesn’t feel that bad this morning.

We had some high clouds today. One of the more interesting thing to happen so far this month. 

32 minutes ago, mimillman said:

 

looks good to me. We can trade places 

All hail king euro. 

Still no precipitation showing up on the models within 200 hours imby. 
 

zzzzzzzzzz

-1F for the morning low.