HUGE April Blizzard to Slam Midwest - AGW Hucksters Struggle to Explain (Minnesota, Nebraska)
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This powerful storm is forecast to develop Tuesday in the Rockies, where it will rapidly intensify and bring blizzard conditions to the Plains on Wednesday.
Overnight temperatures in the Plains will drop nearly 40 degrees in just 12 hours, including in Denver — which is expecting a high of 80 degrees Tuesday and near blizzard conditions by Wednesday night.
Winter storm warnings and watches stretch from the Rockies to the Great Lakes.
There are blizzard warnings for three-quarters of a million people in western Nebraska, South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota.
20's and 30's are hardly unusual in the northern Plains in early-mid April. Pretty common, frankly. It just happens to be just cold enough to snow while there's also a big precipitation event.
This thread is an epic fail. Maybe the OP should actually move to the Plains before he/she/it says anything about the weather there.
Heavy snows in April are fairly common in Minnesota's past. The transition from winter to spring can spawn some rather strong storms and given the right conditions, can also tap into leftover cool air from the winter. Looking through historical anecdotes, the greatest chance of having a large snowstorm appears to be in the first half of the month. One of the greatest April snowstorms (besides the April 5-7, 2008 event ) was the storm that began on April 5, 1933. The old Pigeon River Bridge crossing in Cook County saw 28 inches in one day from that storm. This still stands as the 24 hour state record for snowfall in April. Two Harbors in Lake County saw 17 inches of snow from the 1933 storm. Another April snowstorm is the April 17-19, 2013 event that brought 17.7 inches at Duluth and 7.3 inches in the Twin Cities. The largest April snowstorm in the Twin Cities was the April 13-16, 2018 Thunder Blizzard that dropped 15.8 inches at the Twin Cities International Airport.
As I said, blizzards in April on the Plains are not uncommon.
Guess everyone agrees the climate is the same today as in 1933
1933 on the Plains was the start of the Dust Bowl.
No, the Plains aren't going to get a dust bowl this year.
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