Not trying to polish a turd or anything but at least we haven’t been wasting precipitation on rain. It’s just been very dry across the region this year. Outside of this week and the week after Christmas temperatures have been seasonable this winter as well.
46 currently. Record is 47, top shelf late January day for Minnesota.
With not much snow on the ground I’ll take these warm days if it’s going to be dry.
Yikes the Euro is selling rain here next weekend. GFS shows a decent snow storm fwiw. Normally I’d be hating on early February rain but I’m just thankful we have something to track.
If anyone is bored looking for something to do, the annual U.S. Pond Hockey Championships are being held on Lake Nokomis a few blocks from my house this weekend. It’s a cool tournament that brings out tons of teams from around the country. There’s about 16” of ice on the lake presently.
https://www.uspondhockey.com
It looks like the official high in Minneapolis will be -6F today. That makes today the coldest high temperature since the -13F on 1/30/2019. That day featured a low of -28F which is the coldest it’s gotten here since I moved to Minneapolis in 2016.
Temps stuck at -8 all day. We’ve had ice crystal squalls move through and deposit dustings at time. Haven’t experienced something quite like this before at these temperatures.
There might have been a 5min obs of -6 but we’ll see what the official high is at 6pm.
Sitting at -13F this morning in Minneapolis. Our coldest low of the season.
These aren’t final numbers but from what I can find currently
-20F Duluth, -22F Bemidji, -24F International Falls, -26F Ely