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  1. OrdIowPitMsp
    3/15 is the first day above 50 this year in Minneapolis with a high of 52. Snow was melting off like crazy, lots of grassy spots showing up.
  2. OrdIowPitMsp
    0.8” of snow this morning.
  3. OrdIowPitMsp
    Rain/Snow mix this morning turned to steady snow with big fat flakes. Accumulating rather quickly on the roads.
  4. OrdIowPitMsp
    Low of -2 this morning. Should be our last jaunt below zero this season. Outside the metro temps fell into the -10s, pretty cold for March 12th. 3” of crusty snow hanging on. While total snow amounts have been pedestrian here, It’s been a great winter for snow cover.
  5. OrdIowPitMsp
    Got down to 6 here this morning. Looks like a good chance of falling below zero in the city tomorrow and then the spring warmup begins.
  6. OrdIowPitMsp
    Morning low of 8.
  7. OrdIowPitMsp
    Pretty scary how close this was to a near worst case scenario event for Des Moines.
  8. OrdIowPitMsp
    Cold day by March 9th standards. High of 19, with a stiff NW breeze and full sun. The heat island will probably keep us above zero tonight but outlying areas will drop below.
  9. OrdIowPitMsp
    I’d start with a Magnolia but Palm isn’t far behind.
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    Paste Job
  11. OrdIowPitMsp
    Officially 3.3” overnight. I was measuring closer to 4”-4.5” imby, there’s a stoat ice/slush layer on the bottom which will no doubt compact. Official snow depth at the airport back to 6” With the condensed 2” crust glacier that survived the rain yesterday, and this new stuff on top, our snowpack now holds a ton of much needed moisture.
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    Well this turned out better then expected. What looked like a snowpack eating storm ended up adding to it.
  13. OrdIowPitMsp
    THUNDERSLEET!
  14. OrdIowPitMsp
    Brother in Des Moines just got one of those automated “take shelter” messages on his phone. Edit: Sirens going off now
  15. OrdIowPitMsp
    Crazy I paid $3.28 at Costco today. Even the stations downtown are in the $3.80 range, but I have no doubt $4 gas will be here soon. My folks are snowbirds in SoCal and it’s approaching or maybe even over $5 there already.
  16. OrdIowPitMsp
    Wow Minneapolis has been placed under a Winter Storm Warning for a glaze of ice and 2” of snow. Haven’t seen that one before. Low track is going well SE of guidance. Kept us in the “cold” sector all day. Forecast high was 44 we haven’t made it above 35 and should see slowly falling temperatures moving forward.
  17. OrdIowPitMsp
    Was out in the suburbs and the ice accretion on trees was substantially more then in the city. HRRR wants to put a couple inches of snow down here overnight. We’ll see.
  18. OrdIowPitMsp
    Light drizzle this morning. The end is nigh for our snowpack locally I’m afraid. Rains and high dews later today should do most of it in but we’ll see what the yard looks like tomorrow after the backend duster. We’ve had snow otg for 70 consecutive days, it would have been 91 days if not for the 2 day melt just before Xmas. All good things must come to an end.
  19. OrdIowPitMsp
    Pretty amazing temperature contrast between Minneapolis and Des Moines this week. 20s and 30s here, mid 60s there, its a 3.5 hour drive between the cities. Looks like we might get some accumulating snow behind the low this weekend. Hopefully the rain/storms don’t wash away all of our glacier, I’d like the snow pack longevity streak to continue.
  20. OrdIowPitMsp
    RIP snowpack. Looks like a rainer this weekend will wash most of it away. Welcome to March.
  21. OrdIowPitMsp
    February 2022 in Minneapolis had a -6.1 temperature departure. 11 days went below zero. 0.78” of Precipitation, -0.09” below normal. 10.3” of snowfall for the month, 0.8” above normal. Overall a solid month of winter weather. I’m both a cold and snow weenie, so while we didn’t see extremes of either, solid snowpack and entrenched cold all month was very satisfying.
  22. OrdIowPitMsp
    Let’s just go ahead and lock in the 18z GFS for next weekend please. Going to be an interesting week watching things evolve but looks like a major storm will be impacting the upper Midwest.
  23. OrdIowPitMsp
    2.6” in Minneapolis. Exceeded my expectations. Been a good week
  24. OrdIowPitMsp
    Only dropped down to -3 here last night with the high clouds. Much colder outside the urban core.
  25. OrdIowPitMsp
    1.2” here as of 6pm. Pixie dust. Too bad because this could be a real quality event with better dendrites at 10F.
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