Wound up with .2-.3” of new snow on just a trace of precip. NWS only mentioned a slight chance of flurries in the aviation discussion. Impressive what moisture can be squeezed out of this airmass.
The only saving grace (for now) is that snowpack is below average across northern Wisconsin and central/northern Minnesota. Headwaters for the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers.
-16 is our low in the city. Suburbs dropped to -20. Red Wing MN which is 40 miles southeast of town got down to -24, and International Falls is sitting at -29.
-3F at 7am. Only the 3rd below zero low of the season at MSP. (We average 11 in January alone)
P&C has lowered my high to a balmy -1F for today.
To make the top 10 longest below zero streak only 4 more days to go. 130 consecutive hours below zero is the tenth spot.
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/zero_and_below_streaks.html
What’s falling imby and radar trends definitely more impressive then what the HRRR and NAM have been showing. Still thinking 2” here but we’ll see if it’s rip city when I wake up.