Minnesota wx thread--adding "winter" would be redundant :P

[margiek]

All sorts of silliness about winter weather in Min-ne-so-ta (such as holding an outdoor "Winter Carnival" every year, on the coldest two weeks of the year, routinely causing some events to be canceled due to extreme cold).

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I'm excited: The temperature's going to nudge above freezing this weekend!

Lows will go back down to sub-zero after that, but at least we'll have one day of *tee shirt* weather (...promises to get out and snap at least one photo of a guy wearing shorts).

As Paul Douglas put it today, "Frigid air follows the storm early next week with a couple subzero nights; I’m still holding out hope for a much-needed Christmas thaw. All I want from Santa is the sound of dripping water."

[RL3AO]

I've got about 6 inches on the ground. Its been a nice start to the season. Of course the rain this weekend might take it all away.

[Siberian Express]

I do not want to see any '-removed-' on this thread!...hahaha!!!

[margiek]

After the drizzle and sleet today, we were still blanketed with snow in the south metro, and now we have a couple more powdery inches with a lot of blowing snow. I'm just hoping not too much ice underneath when I have to get up in about six hours and shovel the walk...

It dropped about thirty degrees here between 12:30pm and 4:30pm. In Lakeville it dropped ten degrees in the first fifteen minutes. It's just below zero now. Can't believe we're going to have more snow on Tuesday and highs still in the single digits -- seems like January.

[RL3AO]

Looks like its not going to break 0 today. Wind chills were -20 to -25 last night.

-15 is the forecast tonight.

St. Cloud might hit -25 which would be a record low. -18 in Minneapolis tonight. I hope if anyone is flying up from the Caribbean or the Middle East are prepared.

[margiek]

We got two more inches of snow today, it was two degrees when I left work early at 4pm, and I had a two and a half hour long commute home.



Guess whaaaat?

We're supposed to get maybe ten more inches of snow between Thursday and Saturday.

Gah.

[vbhoutex]

[Agua]

Went to your fair state early last April. First time I ever experienced, or even had thought of, "freezing fog". Beautiful place, but I was awestruck by just how cold 46 degrees can be with a good wind blowing steady during my entire stay.

[RL3AO]

Went to your fair state early last April. First time I ever experienced, or even had thought of, "freezing fog". Beautiful place, but I was awestruck by just how cold 46 degrees can be with a good wind blowing steady during my entire stay.

Wind chill is everything. I'll take 10 and no wind over 25 and windy every day.

[Agua]

To be sure, we have wind chill here, but I was wholly unprepared for how cold it felt; absolutley and literally, bone-chilling. I lived in North Mississippi for several years and we would go 4 or 5 days at a time with highs never reaching 40 and lows in the low 20s to mid teens. Been to NYC with snow and comparable temps.

I can't compare a temperature of 46 degrees in Mississippi with a 20 mph wind to that in Minnesota. It is not just the wind. It should not be any more humid in MN than in MS. Maybe its the wind blowing over the snow covered fields; I dunno. However, the same temperature and wind feel MUCH colder in MN than in MS.

You guys and your forefathers have my respect for living in that place.

[margiek]

Yup it's worse when the wind is blowing.

Aqua: just mailed a present today to my cousin in Ocean Springs (I grew up in Pascagoula).

But as cold and snowy as it is here, I will take it over the ice storms that you can get in the Mid-Atlantic and even New England states in the wintertime (as just happened). Those would scare me silly. At least here they have more than enough plows.

RL3AO: this from Kare-11, below. Guess I'll be spending any extra $ in January through March on my heating bill.

It could be a long, hard winter: December off to a cold and snowy start

We could be in for a long, hard winter.

Climatologists say Minnesota is "right in the middle of the road" for storm systems across North America this December. The result: more snow, and more cold, than a normal December.

So far, the Twin Cities has received 11 inches of snow this December. That's an inch more than normal for the entire month.

And the average temperature for December is 21 degrees. For the first half of THIS December, the temperature is almost six degrees colder than that.

B-r-r-r-r.

With almost two weeks left in the month, there's already snow in the forecast. And that's not all.

University of Minnesota climatologist Mark Seeley says we could set a record for the number of December days in which we receive snowfall.

"Almost every day this month has brought snowfall. That's an extraordinarily high frequency of snowfall observations," Seeley said.
Plus, we're on pace for the coldest December since 2000.

Seeley says Minnesota is getting the brunt of the icy winter, as the state remains in the path of a persistent weather pattern. "We've been right under the storm track, basically. Every weather disturbance that's crossed the North American continent has cut at least a partial swath across the Minnesota landscape," Seeley said.
The weather can always change, of course. But the winter season is off to a tough start. And remember -- winter doesn't officially arrive until December 23.

"All the signs are that this pattern will not change abruptly. So we may be having a taste in December of what we're going to have in January or February," Seeley said.