Weathermania!

From GPL's resident meteorologist.

Bring on the snow!!!

Twin Cities under winter storm warning

https://kstp.com/article/13081/

Hey, did you guys know it’s gonna snow?

Good luck in LaCrosse! We leave for a tourney in Duluth in the morning. Luckily the kid is going up early with Grandma and Grandpa.

School District 196 already cancelling school for tomorrow with the potential snow fall. What a joke… though keep all the malls and kid friendly places open so parents can drag their kids out to in this “dangerous” snow storm.

In northern Lakeville, we’re at 12-14 inches.

Just measured 12-13” in Woodbury.

Few inches here in Tonka land. Nothing to be ZOMG about. It IS still falling, though, so we'll see. Roads were a bit more slick than expected, though, on the drive home from work.

Same. Not sure about the snow, but that seems like a lot too.

Not local... but watching a stream on YouTube from a guy in Arkansas. He lost power for almost 10 minutes from the severe storms/tornadoes. 30 minutes later, a nursing home got hit by a tornado in one of the same systems that had been running over his house

Ever follow a 234 mile tornado? Start checking the internet. It's still going.

https://twitter.com/wxbrad?ref_src ="twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"

The Rube wrote:

Ever follow a 234 mile tornado? Start checking the internet. It's still going.

https://twitter.com/wxbrad?ref_src ="twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"

If that tornado has been on the ground the whole time, that's the one I was talking about.

That's just insane, especially this time of year.

Steve MN wrote:

The Rube wrote:

Ever follow a 234 mile tornado? Start checking the internet. It's still going.

https://twitter.com/wxbrad?ref_src ="twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"

If that tornado has been on the ground the whole time, that's the one I was talking about.

That's just insane, especially this time of year.

https://twitter.com/t_hofelich/status/1469525957941895173?s=21

Snowcool08 wrote:

Steve MN wrote:

The Rube wrote:

Ever follow a 234 mile tornado? Start checking the internet. It's still going.

https://twitter.com/wxbrad?ref_src ="twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"

If that tornado has been on the ground the whole time, that's the one I was talking about.

That's just insane, especially this time of year.

https://twitter.com/t_hofelich/status/1469525957941895173?s=21br >

Governor says at least 50 people died.

We got 18" of snow here when all was said and done.

Mother of God. I measured 20" of snow at my house in Woodbury. Not drifts. This was in the middle of my backyard. I think we can stop talking about the 1991 Halloween snowstorm now (at least the people who ended up in the bullseye of this one).

What still amazes me is how narrow the snow band was. I think MSP got 11” and Forest Lake barely got 1”. We had about 5 here on the east side of Plymouth

We got 16.8 in SSP. I thought it was going to be “heart attack” snow but was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t. Very easy to snowblow and a perfect weather day for it.

Roughly eight inches at our place in central St. Louis Park. Berm was over two feet of heart attack snow, the rest was pretty light and fluffy.

Ended up with 16" - 17" in Eagan.

Got about 4 inches last night from the storm up here in the Keweenaw. The trailing edge can be seen off in the distance just now.[attachment=1]C9EF7898-B281-45CF-AF61-09B13DC54FB9.jpeg[/attachment]

Made for some beautiful scenery in the wee hours of the morning!
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I measured 14” in Hudson, NWS shows us getting 18.

So this could have gone in travel but Weather seems a better fit. We went to Montreal for a few days, scheduled to come home Friday. So we fly from Montreal to Detroit. Our flight to MSP has been canceled. We hightail it to the club for help. Turns out we get split up on flights home. My husband is sent to Indianapolis/Mineapolis, leaving immediately. I'm on a direct to MSP. We head off to different gates. His flight lands in IN and the MSP flight has been canceled. He's now stuck and quickly finds a hotel. Rescheduled flight at 6 am means he got about 4 hours of sleep. ME? My flight diverts to Duluth because the long runway at MSP is closed. We land and aren't let off plane as they wait to see about situation. After 20 minutes they say the flight has been cancelled. So we're cut loose at Duluth. There is not a single person working, no gate agent. Two people on our flight needed wheelchairs and there's no one around or chairs to be found. The food places are closed. The bathroom is :censored: locked!! There are now about 100 people just abandoned at the airport. Hotels are fully booked as some holiday light display has just opened and tourists are in town. People are pissed off royally. Finally some Diamond flyer must have gotten ahold of Delta and given them an earful. Delta arranged for buses to take us to MSP. So a slow ride down to the cities gets all of us to the airport at around 11:30. NO TAXIS. Not a single driver. Uber is refusing to pick up or so backed up you couldn't connect to a driver. I waited 45 minutes for a taxi and there were still at least 75 people in line behind me. I staggered home by 1:00am. Oh, and the f'ing cherry on top? I lost my iPad on the plane as it apparently slipped out of my bag in the overhead storage and I didn't see it because of the angle of the compartment. Discovered that on the bus. When we both were finally home we just had to kind of laugh, boy when things go wrong they tend to REALLY go wrong. But we seriously had to question WHY either flight even left Detroit in the first place. I'm perfectly capable of traveling alone but I wish we'd been stuck together. Now I wait to see if my iPad is turned into Lost and Found, I'm not holding my breath.

Kelly Red, hoping your ipad is found & returned to you intact. Curious if Delta gave U & hubby the option of staying at a hotel in Detroit Friday night & flying out Saturday morning? I’m assuming they’d of allowed that, but you’d of had to pay for the hotel out of your own pocket? With a snowstorm storm in progress, trying to get home to MSP Friday was (unfortunately) a roll of the dice that didn’t turn out very well, but glad to hear that you eventually made it home.

No. Honestly at the time we were rush rush rushed to make a decision about getting to our rebooked flights. And I don't think airlines pay for a hotel because of weather, only mechanical. If we'd have KNOWN our misadventure I think we would have stayed in Detroit. But we didn't have a crystal ball, neither did Delta. But I'm very disappointed in how we were treated once in Duluth. I mean, JFC, a locked bathroom? That just chapped everyone.

Soooo 64 degrees on Wednesday? WTH?

With freezing temps right after it. That will make for an icy mess with the melting that will happen during the day.

Its reported that 74 people are now dead from the large tornado. The number has been climbing all day. It's a very high number. But honestly, after looking at the damage, I am surprised its not in the high 100s. Buildings are now splinters.

I’ve been seeing low 50’s predicted pretty consistently but it’s supposed to be scattered rain during the day with a line of thunderstorms coming thru about 8PM then dropping to a low of 24 Thursday morning….may be ugly.

Ugly, but....THUNDERSNOW!

We must live real close to each other. I measured 14" and I live in the Valley Park (Bermuda Triangle) neighborhood of Rosemount/Lakeville/Apple Valley.

Yep. I used to live in Valley Park. Now I’m up the hill near Eisele’s greenhouse.

I'm just hoping to avoid any water getting into my basement with the rain tomorrow.

D@mn. We're only about a mile apart. I'm an errant approach shot from the first green at Crystal Lake GC.

The best part of Valley Park... Ole Piper... lol!!!

When there’s not snow on the ground, you might see me running form Highview to Kendrick and back.

Could be an interesting day across southern Mn

[media] https://twitter.com/NWSSPC/status/1470998201922584578 [/media]

A friend who lives in Omaha said they cancelled school today in his district because of how high the severe weather threat and the expected 50-70mph wind gusts

We start with a dense fog advisory, then move to high winds and thunderstorms that move through the area at 65 mph with possible tornados and wind gusts up to 85 mph! Then temps plummet causing flash freeze.

Wow. Quite a day. I’ll be spending my afternoon battening down the hatches.

I talked with some relatives in Iowa last night and several schools in central and northern Iowa are doing the same thing. The mess from last week is fresh in their minds.

Seems to be in the neighborhood of 'tip the bus over' winds.

Today is gonna suck isn't it?

Not Kentucky levels of suck, but it sounds icky. Might want to tie down the deck furniture and remove the grill covers.

News said there's never been a tornado in December in MN, but could happen today.

A lot of people in Iowa still have fresh memories of the Derecho in 2020. The forecast isn't at that level but people do have that on their mind. I would imagine the interstate might be a little less busy last this afternoon.

If we do, I THINK that only leaves January and February. While the vast majority have been May-July, Minnesota has seen tornadoes every month March-November already.

Looks like Mankato is on the northern edge of this.

[media] https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1471199143385198594 [/media]

Had to do a double take when that came up on my phone a while ago. I spent almost 5 hours clearing snow at my work on Saturday. Now today...in December...I have to concern myself with a possible tornado. It's giving me flashbacks to dodging tornadoes in Southern Missouri in January 2008. I was ice fishing in 20 degree weather on a Sunday afternoon. The next day I was in Nevada, Missouri where it was near 70 degrees. There was no wonder why that tornado outbreak happened.

Now a winter storm warnings have been issued for parts of northern MN. This type of split weather in Mn is normally reserved for March and April. Also, a record high temperature was set at MSP today.

[media] https://twitter.com/kare11wx/status/1471233417895362565 [/media]

[media] https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1471235689350053888 [/media]