The Minnesota Weather Thread (Woodbury: cities, places, humid)

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by CARas2020

I am so jealous of you Minnesota people. I wish for a white Christmas every year and it never happens. I think in the past 30+ years of living in the Pacific Northwest we have had a White Christmas once and possibly twice. Even where I grew up in Western PA is getting a winter storm. Not unusual at all. But we should of been home for the holidays but because of the covid crap we can't. Glad we didn't buy tickets when it was getting started back in March. One time years ago I did go home for Christmas started to snow when I got there and di not stop the entire week I was home, I shoveled the driveway for my mom the old fashioned way. ( they had a snow blower).


Stay safe and all that. Hope everyone has a great holiday.

There's usually snow on the ground here in the Twin Cities (and all of MN) most years. It's really magical in my view though when it there is actually snow coming down on Christmas Eve or Christmas. That doesn't happen often. But in my view you gotta have snow on the ground for it to really be Christmas. I'm sure a 40 year old who's spent their entire lives in FL (like my cousins) have a very different view about snow.

[wamer27]

I plow snow, we've had a storm right around Christmas almost every year. Weather often runs in 7 day patterns, and yearly too it seems. All I have to do is go back to prior years billings to find trends.

[demtion35]

It's a good feeling, being outside, working on stuff, shoveling, goofing off, when it is cold. Fingers get cold, nose drips, ice forms on eye lids, and in beards. Being outside, in the cold, nothing quite like it. Doing stuff outside in the cold, weather hiking, watching the night sky, sitting beside a beaver dam in the middle of nowhere. The crunch of snow under your boots, the occasional sound in the distance, perhaps a wolf, the cracking of ice, the ink black night sky, filled with stars. Coming in the house from the cold, taking off the gloves, fingers are cold, starting to warm up, and they begin to hurt a little. Winter is wonderful.

[TheGrandViking]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...lit-cold-snow/

The polar vortex is coming to Minnesota in the third week in January!!! Yeah!. We have been having a Omaha winter so far. booo (more specifically in the Minneapoalis metro).

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by TheGrandViking

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...lit-cold-snow/

The polar vortex is coming to Minnesota in the third week in January!!! Yeah!. We have been having a Omaha winter so far. booo (more specifically in the Minneapoalis metro).

It's about time, this has been what meteorologists refer to as a "blowtorch" winter- meaning well above average temperatures. La Nina effect of the nonstop Pacific storm track basically flooded most of southern Canada with milder Pacific Ocean air with little arctic air able to move southward. The reversal of the jet stream pattern will likely mean at or below average temperatures for most areas of the US east of the Rockies from mid to late January through a good part of February. I was looking at the 6 PM computer model run, and I even have a chance of a low temperature down to -10F north of the Ohio River in the next 12-14 days.

[Cambium]

The Orange alert is issued

https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/sta...892715521?s=19

https://www.pivotalweather.com/maps....haz&ds=hazards

[Umbria]

I just took the bowzers out and supposedly it's raining - it isn't. We will get 3-6 of snow in the Metro. It's been an unusually mild winter so far.

[Kavalier]

It's been very unusually mild.


The first couple weeks in January I believe are supposed to be the coldest of the year here, but they have not been that cold at all. Yesterday was very Spring-like.

[Kavalier]

This will be the longest cold stretch we have seen since 2014.

High over the next 10 days will not get above 6 degrees (Tuesday).

[Kavalier]

Bel just said this is the longest stretch of this cold since 1994.