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Aftermath of the Great December Blizzard of 2020
Zoom Radar and Star Tribune The Great Pre-Christmas White-Out of 2020 Well that was fun, in an existential-threat kind of way. Every storm is uniquely and annoyingly different. They are never identical. On a good week we can give 2-5 days notice of a major weather...
Minnesota Blizzard – Mild Signal to Persist Into March – Hawaii Bracing for Volcanic Eruption
Latest Watches and WarningsPraedictix and AerisWeather Free Snowstorm Just In Time For Christmas ”Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.” I know commutes have been a breeze, but think about it. A Minnesota Christmas without snow is a little like peanut butter without...
White Christmas Odds Increase Across Upper Midwest – Dangers of Wildfire Smoke
Don’t Give Up On That White Christmas ”Like planting daffodils during a Category 5 hurricane”. That’s how Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm described his life during a call last week. We’ve been living through a Category 5 viral hurricane for 11...
40+” Snow For Parts of New York State – Southwest USA Experiencing Exceptional Drought
Stay off metro icePaul Douglas We May Get That White Christmas After All Turns out Mother Nature is a bit of a drama queen. After teasing winter weather lovers with the snowiest Minnesota October on record, winter has been playing hard to get in recent weeks. My...
Much of Northeast: More Snow Yesterday Than All of Last Winter
White Christmas Comes Down To The Wire ”Grandpa, tell me again about a time when we had white Christmases in Minnesota? And... what’s a snow plow?” Conversations I hope to never have. Odds are Canada won’t run out of cold fronts - and many winters will be snowy going...
Northeast Snowpocalypse – Winter Season Severity Index – 2020: Second Hottest Year on Record?
Snowfall Potential Next 36 Hours NOAA and AerisWeather No Winning Snowfall Lotto Anytime Soon Minnesota won’t win the Snow Lotto anytime soon. That distinction goes to Pennsylvania, where up to 30 inches may pile up by Thursday. Over a foot of snow may plaster New...