Minny_Weather

These are, without a doubt, the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen, and only one storm comes even close (a lake enhanced band when I lived in Ohio). It's accumulating so fast which is insane for a temp in the mid-30s. 

54 minutes ago, Minny_Weather said:

Light rain the entire morning has switched to moderate sleet. 36°F.

Ptype is now snow.

Light rain the entire morning has switched to moderate sleet. 36°F.

Looks like I'm sitting out of this one. Have fun, people down south.

Pretty nice snow squall coming through, already have a dusting down.

5 hours ago, Tom said:

Finally, you pretty much were near ground zero on a rather interesting Spring Storm...did it feel like you got that much?

It definitely looks cool on the ground. It compacted quite a bit though, so it looks nothing close to 15"

The fact that this was a long-duration event made it pretty nonchalant feeling. There weren't really any heavy rates.

Official total from AXN: 15.5".

From eyeballing I'd say about a foot on the ground. SUPER beneficial, especially with no recent significant precip and none in sight. 

COCORAHS reporters are saying around 10-12" storm total here.

I've probably hit 6" storm total at this point. Here's the view from my work's parking lot. Still ripping pretty well.

I genuinely don't think I've gotten any additional snowfall since I went to bed at 10 last night

Cool bug fact: None of this dry air that I am currently sitting in was modeled. At all. Radar doesn't look to improve for a while, either.

Aaaaaaand dry air.

Alexandria schools are closed tomorrow, as are pretty much all of the schools in this part of the state.

17 minutes ago, james1976 said:

Local met just showed thundersnow down by Austin and Rochester. Heavy snow band across southern MN is expected to lift in to the metro over the next few hours.

Yeah I'm jealous of you guys out east. This was never gonna be a high-rate snowfall out here, we were just gonna get foot plus totals from 2 straight days of light to moderate snowfall. Glad some people are seeing cool stuff from this.

School closures starting to trickle in here. Can continue to hope that my work closes tomorrow, but it usually takes something catastrophic for the government to shut down.

10 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

Not sure what is up with the 18z NAM but it cuts back totals just about everywhere through 10AM tomorrow. It still ends up alright for some on here but would certainly be a bit of disappointment for here.

Limited moisture. That's a worry that I always have with CO lows and that's a rather annoying nowcast feature of all of these storms.

8 minutes ago, MinnesotaSnow said:

HRRR and the NAM show this filling in soon. Heaviest rates aren’t modeled to arrived until 6pm or so. 

At least in my neck of the woods (west central MN), I'm not putting too much stock into what happens today. Tomorrow has always been projected as the big day here.

Dry slot is about to move in... That's obnoxious.

28 minutes ago, sholomar said:

precip has been nonexistant so far. This is really what I've come to expect from all major storm predictions. Like every single one. They almost always underdeliver. I'm adding to my list of things I read daily to not overly anticipate these storms anymore and just live in the moment. No looking at forecasts or weather models a week out anymore. That said, I'm gone. Take care, all.

Yeah the Dakotas are getting hosed by this. Sucks to see for those out there as Wisconsin is really cashing in on better rates.

This stuff is having a really hard time accumulating. It's falling at a decent clip, but the largest flakes are about the same size as a grain of quinoa and it's the middle of the day in March.

Radar appears to be filling in and the flake size outside seems to reflect that. Flakes had been microscopic since sunrise and now they're still small, but bigger. 

I also think we might have gotten some freezing rain overnight. There is some ice caked on cars. 23°F.

General consensus on the SREF plumes seem to say 10-14". Definitely hoping for the upper end of that.

1 minute ago, hawkstwelve said:

I'm not a fan either. There is some decently heavy precip that falls here tonight but it's all as rain, with the rain/snow line a full county to my north. That would suck.

I think for everyone's sake, let's just throw this model out.

That dry slot too... Ick. Can we just keep the 3km NAM?

12 hours into the 12Z HRRR run so far and I'm not a fan of it. Not one bit. Keeps the moisture all down towards the rain/snow line and keeps the snow up here light.

Unfortunately, current radar made me worried that that would happen before this run even began.

I'm just gonna ride the NAM since that's the one model that still absolutely drills me.