Looking at the forecast holy buckets

10klakes wrote:

Got an inch of rain. that will help a lot.

Yep, same here. Very nice!

fishingstar wrote:

Here also just came in from looking for crawlers. Didn’t find any must be to cold for them.

I pulled some mulch Saturday and the ground was covered with crawlers.

Without tornados, or flooding, this rain has been super beneficial. I’ve gotten just under two inches in the last three days. Its nice to see some water levels back to near normal. And the groundwater.

They are talking 80 over the weekend and possible severe storms!

I got about an inch of rain too. Glad it was liquid moisture and not the white stuff.

CaptainMusky wrote:

They are talking 80 over the weekend and possible severe storms!

not talk like that!!!!!!

CaptainMusky wrote:

They are talking 80 over the weekend and possible severe storms!

No 80’s in the forecast for my area, but some Low 70’s. I’ll take it. The rain + the Warmer temps should really start to green things up around here. That will sure be nice. Tired of looking at ugly brown yards.

Wonder how fast the shrooms will come up. The ground is pretty warm in the woods for this time of year already.

This is kind of a cool website, and by the looks of it, Gim can sleep in peace now with a lowered drought threat!

https://www.drought.gov/states/minnesota

fishthumper wrote:

No 80’s in the forecast for my area, but some Low 70’s. I’ll take it. The rain + the Warmer temps should really start to green things up around here. That will sure be nice. Tired of looking at ugly brown yards.

Yeah, that might be for the twin cities

I am not seeing that in the twin cities, but maybe Bel’s I meant Gim’s forecast is more accurate.

Ripjiggen wrote:

I am not seeing that in the twin cities, but maybe Bel’s I meant Gim’s forecast is more accurate.

LOL I’ll try to report back in a day with a more thorough assessment of the upcoming warmup.

A warm up this weekend looks likely. I am seeing 70-75 degrees for highs in the southern half of the state and 60’s all the way to the Canadian border. Nearing 80 degrees in far southwestern MN.

The following week (April 15-19) looks wet. Another slow-moving low pressure system is going to enter the region and create multiple days of moisture. Where this goes through isn’t quite known yet, obviously. It will be all rain, no more snow.

Fake weatherman reporting

Even though we got over an inch of rain recently and that heavy wet snow we still need moisture so that will be good.

gimruis wrote:

A warm up this weekend looks likely. I am seeing 70-75 degrees for highs in the southern half of the state and 60’s all the way to the Canadian border. Nearing 80 degrees in far southwestern MN.

The following week (April 15-19) looks wet. Another slow-moving low pressure system is going to enter the region and create multiple days of moisture. Where this goes through isn’t quite known yet, obviously. It will be all rain, no more snow.

Fake weatherman reporting

It’s going to green up quick in the next few weeks, and I love it! Also, Gim I trust your reports more than any professional, which might say more about the pro’s… but I appreciate it!

Dandelion season is rapidly approaching.

Yeah we still need the moisture badly. Everywhere I’ve been from SE MN trout streams are low and clear up to Mille Lacs is very low. I know we just got some rain but it amounted to very little. Maybe the exception is the St Cloud area and Duluth area seem to get the precipitation somehow

70’s in the southern half of the state this weekend and near 80 by Monday, with 60’s all the way to the Canadian border.

On Monday, a slow moving low pressure system will arrive and stick around for multiple days. This entire system will be rain and totals will be very consistent throughout the region. Here is the 7 day precipitation estimates through April 19. 1-2 inch amounts will be very common in a large geographic area from the Dakotas eastward into Wisconsin and south into Iowa.

Glorious rain!

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Looking better and better…

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The prairies need moisture bad. Hopefully that rain extends a long way up the Canadian prairie and it’s enough to fill some seasonal wetlands for the duck hatch.

I hope that Canada gets some of this moisture as well. It’d be nice to not have 2/3 of the summer clear days marred with Canadian Wildfire smoke here.

1.5 inches so far!!

Same!

We are finally finally getting some good rain! Looks like Mille Lacs is getting it too!

buckybadger wrote:

I hope that Canada gets some of this moisture as well. It’d be nice to not have 2/3 of the summer clear days marred with Canadian Wildfire smoke here.

Absolutely. That was frustrating last year.

about 2 inches here!!!

1.5 inches I’m guessing. This wind is nuts! Broke my umbrella, can’t mess up my combover.

2.25 here good crawler picking rain

All I know is tomorrow is lawn roller rental day.

lindyrig79 wrote:

We are finally finally getting some good rain! Looks like Mille Lacs is getting it too!

I don’t have a gauge but we received a fair amount yesterday with a steady heavy rain. Still getting a bit this morning.

1.2″ here near Pool 4 as measured this morning. I’d be shocked if what falls today amounts to more than a few tenths.

As of last week we were in the “Abnormally Dry” classification on the drought monitor with most of the Twin Cities and surround counties having no drought designation. I’m not sure if this will be enough to push us back to “normal”, but we will take it. This is easily the most favorable start to a growing season for farmers in the area in quite a few years.

Hopefully the increased river flow is not too late for the survival rate of walleye/sauger spawn. Recruitment is much better with increased water levels reaching into May. This year at the peak of the spawn water levels were pretty low.