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2/21 - 2/24 Powerhouse Upper Midwest/GL's Winter Storm


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It's been snowing lightly since 7:00am, intensified late this afternoon. Was able to get out on the sled for a ride, strong East winds 4 - 6 " accumulation.

jaster220 must have a closet full of towels to throw in, he's not spared us his presence yet !!!!

 

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18 minutes ago, hawkstwelve said:

Man, NWS MPX is getting roasted on their tweet about the 5.5" total at MSP through 6PM. Since the 'historic snowstorm' apparently didn't pan out everyone thinks it gives them the right to give forecasters a bunch of crap, as if they didn't just try to do the best they could. Makes no sense.

Yeah im guessing 6" tops here so far. And now we're in a dry slot that was not ever forecasted. Unfortunately it just hasn't panned out. Long night to go yet so we'll see how this plays out.

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1 hour ago, uticasnow said:

I am in Macomb and sitting here listening to  the rain and some sleet back in the mix again now.....trees also look like they are very much ice covered....I am hoping we do not lose power

Wow! Same here 28 now but thankfully the rain has stopped here. It’s going to be an ice rink on our road.  We have one tree leaning from the top. Hope we don’t lose it. 

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Assuming we get a few more inches overnight, the drifts by morning should be pretty cool. Already seeing some significant ones around here! Unfortunate that the storm was modeled so poorly right up to the event, but weather is hard. NWS in Minneapolis getting absolutely roasted doesn't seem real fair...

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I only received 0.27" of rain from this system, and only a small part of that froze to surfaces.

season snowfall: 0.0"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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This was a very complex storm system and the models didn't handle it all to well.  While my area did get extremely heavy rain and some freezing rain, I think this part of the storm stole the moisture farther N and NW.  This system more or less ended up being an elongated double barrel system with wave #1 yesterday and wave #2 that ejected out of CO late last night and formed the second wave of heavier snow that fell across the Plains and now over MN/WI.  Yesterday, ORD reported a record daily RN of 1.20".

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1 minute ago, Tom said:

This was a very complex storm system and the models didn't handle it all to well.  While my area did get extremely heavy rain and some freezing rain, I think this part of the storm stole the moisture farther N and NW.  This system more or less ended up being an elongated double barrel system with wave #1 yesterday and wave #2 that ejected out of CO late last night and formed the second wave of heavier snow that fell across the Plains and now over MN/WI.  Yesterday, ORD reported a record daily RN of 1.20".

The models didn't budge for days. I do think moisture was stole from up this way. oh well.

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It looks like the Grand Rapids metro area dodged bullet. But that said there is around 1.5 to 2” of solid ice/snow on the ground and there is a good amount of ice on the car windows. The trees and wires do not look really all that bad. As sleet/ice storms go this was not all that bad. Most of the power outages are to the south along I94. Where just under 200,000 customers are with out power. 

Yesterday’s official H/L at Grand Rapids was 31/26 there was 0.84” of precipitation of that 1.6” was reported as snow. Here in my yard I have just under 2” of snow/sleet/ice. There was no sunshine yesterday. For the season GR is now up to 86.1” of snow fall. At Lansing there was 0.82” of precipitation and at Muskegon there was less with just 0.44” there. The overnight low and current temperature here at my house is 27. For today the average H/L is now up to 36/21 the record high of 63 was set in 1984 and again in 2000. The record low of -10 was set in 2015 and the record snow fall amount of 5.9” fell in 1994.

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Temperature hung around 32⁰ all day yesterday so there's still ice on the trees of up to around 1/4" with a bunch of ice chunks littering the ground under the trees. I was on the northwest side of the main rainfall shield and ended up with 0.55". (.06" of that fell overnight) 

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Hoping we get about be 40 quick today before the winds come in.  We still have power after the dry slot (I think) came through.  Looks like we escaped the worst of it with hours of sleet mixed with snow.   Currently 26 degrees. Biggest ice storm I have seen.  Sand cranes are flying North .  

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It seems like the models had the right idea with the snow across Minnesota.  However, the series of waves were not as strong as earlier predicted.  The final, main, wave was predicted to be several mb deeper than it turned out to be.

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season snowfall: 0.0"

'22-23: 30.2"      '21-22: 27.1"      '20-21: 52.5"      '19-20: 36.2"      '18-19: 50.2"      '17-18: 39.5"

Average snowfall: ~30"

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7 hours ago, bud2380 said:

Still a lot of impressive totals.

 

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I have fam in the two top spots on your list. Not sure they care all that much for snow-n-cold tbh

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Winter 2023-24 Snow Total = 2.3"    Largest Storm: 2.1" (11/26-27)        Oct: 0.2 Nov: 2.1 Dec: 0.0 Jan: 0.0 Feb: 0.0 Mar: 0.0 Apr: 0.0

Annual avg for mby = 45.0"  (KDTW): 2022-23 = 33.5"   2021-22 = 35.6"    

Avg = 49.7"  (KRMY): 2020-21 = 36.2"   2019-20 = 48.0"   2018-19 = 56.1"   2017-18 = 68.3"    2016-17 = 52"    2015-16 = 57.4"    2014-15 = 55.3"    2013-14 = 100.6" (coldest & snowiest in the modern record!)  2012-13 = 47.2"    2011-12 = 43.7"

Legit Blizzards (high winds and dbl digit snows): Feb 2011, Dec 2009, Jan 2005, Dec 2000, Jan 1999, Mar 1998, Nov 1989, Jan 1982, Jan 1978, Jan 1977, Apr 1975, Mar 1973, Jan 1967, Feb 1965, Jan 1918

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4 hours ago, hawkstwelve said:

Nice post and a cool graphic from NWS MPX explaining why the forecast didn't pan out exactly as expected up there, although as James mentioned it still came fairly close.

Do you know what MSP officially ended with?

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On 2/23/2023 at 9:03 AM, WinterSquall23 said:

Thought this was interesting in Portland, Oregon NWS reported the 2nd largest snowstorm 10.8” since 1943.  That office is nearly at sea level.  
 

 

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Some places on the OR coast around Tillamook got more snow at sea level than MSP with this storm.

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