Winter weather in Twin Cities

[golfgal]

Looking for a high in the mid 60's on Wednesday. We were out golfing yesterday, plan to go again today.

[davephan]

I don't know if the OP ever made the move here. I've lived in Minnesota for nearly 60 years. Climate change has absolutely effected the weather here. The weather in the past 20 years is much different than it was 20 to 60 years ago. It isn't as cold and there isn't as much snow.

It did snow earlier this year, but the snow is gone now. There's a thin layer of ice on our lake. My brother in law grew up in southern Minnesota. They used to snowmobile every day all winter when he was growing up. Those days are long gone. People that want to snowmobile have to go somewhere else, like northern Wisconsin where they have lake effect snow.

In early February, we used to have a week to week and a half where the low was -20 to -25 and the high was -5. Those days are long gone. It still could get down to -15 with a high of +5 for about 2 days, the warm up a little with another couple cold days in early February.

If anything, the weather is more irratic. Sometimes we have thunder and lightening in the winter months on rare occasions in the past two decades. That never happened 40 to 60 years ago.

So, a snowless Thanksgiving and even Christmas is more common that it used to be. If we do have snow on the ground during Christmas, it usually isn't much in recent years.

My tolerance for the cold and snowy weather is much less than it used to be. This is partly because of a big weight and body fat loss in recent years, so I feel the cold much more than I used to feel it. Plus, I'm sick of the cold and snow after living here in Minnesota too long.

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by davephan

I don't know if the OP ever made the move here. I've lived in Minnesota for nearly 60 years. Climate change has absolutely effected the weather here. The weather in the past 20 years is much different than it was 20 to 60 years ago. It isn't as cold and there isn't as much snow.

It did snow earlier this year, but the snow is gone now. There's a thin layer of ice on our lake. My brother in law grew up in southern Minnesota. They used to snowmobile every day all winter when he was growing up. Those days are long gone. People that want to snowmobile have to go somewhere else, like northern Wisconsin where they have lake effect snow.

In early February, we used to have a week to week and a half where the low was -20 to -25 and the high was -5. Those days are long gone. It still could get down to -15 with a high of +5 for about 2 days, the warm up a little with another couple cold days in early February.

If anything, the weather is more irratic. Sometimes we have thunder and lightening in the winter months on rare occasions in the past two decades. That never happened 40 to 60 years ago.

So, a snowless Thanksgiving and even Christmas is more common that it used to be. If we do have snow on the ground during Christmas, it usually isn't much in recent years.

My tolerance for the cold and snowy weather is much less than it used to be. This is partly because of a big weight and body fat loss in recent years, so I feel the cold much more than I used to feel it. Plus, I'm sick of the cold and snow after living here in Minnesota too long.

Actually, I think the opposite is true--the years in the 60's and 70's were snowier than normal. Our resident weather guy posted about this a few years ago. We lucked out growing up that we "always' had snow but I think those were the unusual years. Average snowfall in the Twin Cities is only about 45"/year or so. Last year we had 60" I think, the year before 12, before that was 88.