The Minnesota Weather Thread (Rochester: grocery, listing, swim)

[Kavalier]

This is crazy. So in that spirit, I will remind you fine folks of the snowy (in April) North...

Last year was the deadliest on record for heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County, according to the Department of Public Health: 150 people are confirmed dead from the heat, with five more cases pending. That’s 65 more people dead from heat than in 2015 and 89 more than in 2014. The second-deadliest year on record was 2012, with 110 heat-associated deaths.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news...nix/646194001/

[Hulsker 1856]

[Kavalier]

Is it true it's the coldest April on record?

[tijlover]

I grew up and lived in MN for 43 years, and since moving away to the SW I have ritually watched the weather reports up in Minneapolis every day since I left, just a habit. What's happening this year up there has me feeling very guilty as I have many relatives living up there, most in the Rochester area. And I'm not one of these ex-pats, like so many others, who like to brag about where they're living or snowbirding. I wouldn't be that insensitive and cruel.

What really drove me out of there was the cloud cover, not the snow and cold, as it can get quite chilly right here in Las Vegas during the winter, like at night, with cursable winds blowing thru the valley at 40-50-60MPH, bring in all that fine silica into your lungs, which also creates some very uncomfortable windchill.

Below zero, and the sun is shining brightly all day long, no complaints! But cloud cover day after day after day?

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by tijlover

I grew up and lived in MN for 43 years, and since moving away to the SW I have ritually watched the weather reports up in Minneapolis every day since I left, just a habit. What's happening this year up there has me feeling very guilty as I have many relatives living up there, most in the Rochester area. And I'm not one of these ex-pats, like so many others, who like to brag about where they're living or snowbirding. I wouldn't be that insensitive and cruel.

What really drove me out of there was the cloud cover, not the snow and cold, as it can get quite chilly right here in Las Vegas during the winter, like at night, with cursable winds blowing thru the valley at 40-50-60MPH, bring in all that fine silica into your lungs, which also creates some very uncomfortable windchill.

Below zero, and the sun is shining brightly all day long, no complaints! But cloud cover day after day after day?

It was actually quite sunny here over the Winter. I don't know if there are stats out there (obviously there probably are) but it seemed somewhat sunny over the Winter. They should stop messing with the daylight saving time change thing though - that has always p-ssed me off.

[Umbria]

Originally Posted by tijlover

I grew up and lived in MN for 43 years, and since moving away to the SW I have ritually watched the weather reports up in Minneapolis every day since I left, just a habit. What's happening this year up there has me feeling very guilty as I have many relatives living up there, most in the Rochester area. And I'm not one of these ex-pats, like so many others, who like to brag about where they're living or snowbirding. I wouldn't be that insensitive and cruel.

What really drove me out of there was the cloud cover, not the snow and cold, as it can get quite chilly right here in Las Vegas during the winter, like at night, with cursable winds blowing thru the valley at 40-50-60MPH, bring in all that fine silica into your lungs, which also creates some very uncomfortable windchill.

Below zero, and the sun is shining brightly all day long, no complaints! But cloud cover day after day after day?

My family also lived in Rochester until they died. I moved there my senior year (how's that for sucky). I find it far more sunny/partly cloudy than over cast in Mpls.

I just returned from the grocery store and it was packed - in prep for our next storm??????????????? I know our weather will be nasty but hardly the storm of the century.

[Cambium]

Sorry I haven't been posting here. After the 4 NorEasters and Winter into April I was getting fatigued. lol But its 70s today and I'm back!


You guys ready???? There's a Blizzard in Nebraska today and that storm is coming to Minnesota. Heads up


https://twitter.com/pdouglasweather/...59374488350720

[matt8325]

Originally Posted by Umbria

My family also lived in Rochester until they died. I moved there my senior year (how's that for sucky). I find it far more sunny/partly cloudy than over cast in Mpls.

I just returned from the grocery store and it was packed - in prep for our next storm??????????????? I know our weather will be nasty but hardly the storm of the century.

Actually, this has the potential to be an historic snowstorm. Dating to 1938, Mpls./St. Paul International Airport has only recorded one two-day April 10-inch-plus snowstorm, a 13.6 inch event on April 14, 1983. In earlier records dating to 1875, there were two other 10-inch-plus April snowstorms in 1907 and 1893, according to the National Weather Service. This could end up being the snowiest April on record in the Twin Cities.

[Kavalier]

It's going to hit literally at the PERFECT time. Friday night start, on all day Saturday into Sun.


Better than, say, Monday.

[Kayekaye]

I looked at the traffic cams in the metro area and people are out, not many though. I wonder how it is on the roads. I haven’t left home since yesterday.