Updated Christmas Snow Forecast

Good Christmas Morning!

We have a major update for the Twin Cities’ winter storm. Warm air hitched a ride with Vixen last night and our temperatures rose through the night. We are above freezing and will remain there through the day with a rain snow mix that will hold our snow accumulations to a couple inches.

We need to get this snow moved because it will freeze in place and be impossible to get off the lots forcing plowing earlier than I had hoped today.

The rain and heavy, wet snow might keep our blowing and drifting at bay, but we’ll see what happens.

Have a great day and safe travels!

Brad

Heavy Snow Overnight

Happy Christmas Eve!

We were/are out plowing last night in the impressive snowfall. I haven’t seen this much snow since I was in college at Iowa State. There were a couple of very heavy bands that came through and the sidewalk would have one inch of accumulation on it by the time we got to the other end.

Most were having visions of sugar plums during the heavy snow, so here is some video of the very pretty snow while Quercus was out working.

We have a break in the snow until this evening when it is expected to pick back up in earnest dumping another 8-12″ through Saturday morning.

Official total so far (latest reported at 8:30 am):

• Prior Lake – 8.2″ (I measured the same in Shakopee)
• MSP Airport – 5.2″
• Chanhassen – 6.2″
• St Paul – 5.8″

We are certainly on track for the 16-22″ the NWS is expecting for us.

Have a great day!

Brad

Christmas Winter Storm Watch

Good afternoon!

A Winter Storm Watch has been issued for southern half of Minnesota, the northwest 2/3 of Iowa, all of South Dakota and far west Wisconsin with Winter Storm Warnings and Blizzard Watches for Kansas and Nebraska.

This mammoth storm is threatening to pound the upper midwest with 15-20″ of snow from Wednesday to Friday.

Good luck!

A Happy October Snow

Good afternoon!

What an exciting day! It is actually beautiful out today. The sun is out, the wind is soft and Fall is definitely in the air. However, I have a foreboding feeling that we are actually going to get some snow tomorrow.

Winter Weather Terms for Minnesota from the National Weather Service at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/?n=wwadef .

The State Climatology Office’s information says yesterday was the first time Minnesota has seen measurable snow in October since 2002 when .6″ fell on Oct 20-21. The crazier statistic is that it has only snowed in the first half of the month 8 times in sixty years with all but three of those being less than .5″.

The National Weather Service has updated their Winter Weather Advisory to include the Twin Cities region. Since this is our first advisory of the season I put together the winter terms (left) our clients need to know as a refresher going into the winter season (I just got kind of used to fall).

Check out more information on winter weather at in our Knowledge Base.

Best of luck traveling tomorrow!

Brad