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***Official 2023 Weather Thread***

If we do get the ice along Highway 30 and north. The west and north sides of peoples house will get a nice layer of wind driven ice. Just hope its a minimal amount of ice that doesn't knock the power out. Does the Low track further north or south? That is the big question.
 
cyfan92 said:
Someone with knowledge, please explain to me how there is a urban heating effect/snowdome over the DSM metro and the MSP metro is the forecasted epicenter of a storm......

Does MSP not deal with our heat islands?
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DSM Must be where Fran lives.
 
nfrine said:
See ya BoxsterCy...
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Gonna be some serious digging out when I get home. Currently in Mexico. If I was home I'd hit it twice with the Toro but if it's 20" or so total that's more than the vintage Toro can bite off. Manually shoveling might take me a couple of days. Will be fun schepping the luggage through the deep snow while knowing I've got a couple of days of shoveling to even get the car out.
 
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BoxsterCy said:
Gonna be some serious digging out when I get home. Currently in Mexico. If I was home I'd hit it twice with the Toro but if it's 20" or so total that's more than the vintage Toro can bite off. Manually shoveling might take me a couple of days. Will be fun schepping the luggage through the deep snow while knowing I've got a couple of days of shoveling to even get the car out.
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It's gonna be so bad here. I feel your pain and hope it's not horrible for you. I'm debating going to buy a roof rake tomorrow. Saying now we (MPLS) could get 25+
 
I saw on the Weather Channel where I think tomorrow it is suppose to be like -5 in Montana and then like 90 degrees in Orlando. HUGE temperature differences between parts of the country. Some south cities going to be hitting daily record highs and some in the Rockies/Northwest hitting record daily lows.
 
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BoxsterCy said:
Gonna be some serious digging out when I get home. Currently in Mexico. If I was home I'd hit it twice with the Toro but if it's 20" or so total that's more than the vintage Toro can bite off. Manually shoveling might take me a couple of days. Will be fun schepping the luggage through the deep snow while knowing I've got a couple of days of shoveling to even get the car out.
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Man, I would be making some calls!
 
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BigJCy said:
I saw on the Weather Channel where I think tomorrow it is suppose to be like -5 in Montana and then like 90 degrees in Orlando. HUGE temperature differences between parts of the country. Some south cities going to be hitting daily record highs and some in the Rockies/Northwest hitting record daily lows.
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I don't think that's necessarily unusual for this time of year. I follow a Twitter account (I believe it's some office of the NWS but I don't remember) that tweets the highest and lowest recorded temperature in the US at the end of every day. And during the winter most days look like that - someplace is at or below 0, some other place is in the 90s.
 
BoxsterCy said:
Gonna be some serious digging out when I get home. Currently in Mexico. If I was home I'd hit it twice with the Toro but if it's 20" or so total that's more than the vintage Toro can bite off. Manually shoveling might take me a couple of days. Will be fun schepping the luggage through the deep snow while knowing I've got a couple of days of shoveling to even get the car out.
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When I got back from my honeymoon in Key West, I had to clean off the car at the airport, and then when I got home, scoop the driveway before I could pull in. Luckily that was only five or six inches worth though (plus everything the plow stacked up).
 
awd4cy said:
Eh, I’d definitely take a tenth of an inch of ice.
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Maybe. All depends if there's power.

The NWS advisory for Dubuque, Buchanan and Delaware counties is 1/10th to 3/10ths of an inch of ice plus 1 inch of snow plus 40 mph wind gusts.

Having 3/10ths of an inch of ice on power lines and trees is pretty sketchy without the wind.

I experienced the Halloween snowstorm in the Twin Cities, maybe I'll see the Ash Wednesday ice storm in Dubuque.
 
Cyclonepride said:
When I got back from my honeymoon in Key West, I had to clean off the car at the airport, and then when I got home, scoop the driveway before I could pull in. Luckily that was only five or six inches worth though (plus everything the plow stacked up).
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So you got 5-6", but your wife only got 2-3". Sad.
 
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Trice said:
I don't think that's necessarily unusual for this time of year. I follow a Twitter account (I believe it's some office of the NWS but I don't remember) that tweets the highest and lowest recorded temperature in the US at the end of every day. And during the winter most days look like that - someplace is at or below 0, some other place is in the 90s.
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Here's an example of what that difference can be. At the extremes it can push 150 *F between the continental high/low on a single day.

 
This storm has the chance to be the second largest snow storm for the Twin Cities, only behind the Halloween Blizzard of '91. Current forecast is 17-23" (locally higher possible).

Top Five Snowfalls for Twin Cities
1. 28.4 inches: 1991 October 31 - November 3 (Halloween Blizzard)
2. 21.1 inches: 1985 November 29 - December 1 (Thanksgiving Weekend)
3. 20.0 inches: 1982 January 22 - 23
4. 17.4 inches: 1982 January 20 - 21
5. 17.1 inches: 2010 December 10 - 11 (Final "Domebuster")

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