Ah, the joy of removing a foot-plus of dense snow with ice and slush at the bottom. I hope that your back handled the task better than mine did. This storm produced so much snow for several reasons: It has been a huge and very powerful mid-latitude cyclone It tapped into a massive plume of…
If you’re going to have a lot of April snow, you might as well have enough to set a record. That’s what happened in the Twin Cities metro area this weekend. The snow total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport from late Friday though 7 a.m. Sunday was 12.9 inches: Storm Total Snowfall from April 13…
The snow isn’t over, but snow amounts will be much lighter today in most of Minnesota. Yesterday’s official snow total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 11.1 inches, which gaves us an official Twin Cities storm total of 12.2 inches, with more snow on the way. ______________________________________________________________________________ Update: another seven- tenths of an inch at MSP…
Most roads in southwestern Minnesota were open again Sunday, and airplanes are back in the sky over Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport after an historic blizzard Saturday forced runways to close. But some problems still persist.