The weather thread

7-8″ in southwest Minnetonka. Said 2-3″ last night. Storm path shifted south.

2ish in north branch. Looked to be 5 to 6 in Rochester.

I got my wish of 1″ of snow just south of Duluth

A lot less than the forecast called for.

I mentioned earlier that the kids had a 2 hour delay this morning, the first flakes didn’t start falling until 9 am

My back says 6” in Farmington

B-man wrote:

I got my wish of 1″ of snow just south of Duluth

Snowing pretty good in Duluth and Two Harbors right now. A couple or more on the ground.

I am not far from B-man and I would guess we got 2 to 3″ at the most. More came during the dark hours then what we got all day. Now we need to make more ice !

Well the snow persisted the entire day and into the night. Probably ended up with 4 or 5 inches in total. In the range of where they said it would be but low end for sure. Now I need Grouse to figure out my snowblower LOL I dont like how it runs, but only used it once last year. Kept forgetting to bring it in. Grr. Procrastination got the best of me. Its not a gas situation its like the governor or something engine revs up and down when not under a load.

CaptainMusky wrote:

Its not a gas situation its like the governor or something engine revs up and down when not under a load.

That’s how snowblowers all are I thought? They’re tuned rich, which makes it surge, so that they have enough power when you hit thick snow. I have two troy-bilt, with different engines, and they both have done it since new. Once it’s under load they run smooth.

Another example: https://support.cubcadet.com/s/article/122-1

Reef you are probably right and that is what I thought too its just really damn annoying! I had to blow in 5th gear yesterday to get rid of it. I just dont want to damage the engine. This has done it since new as well so I figured it was normal.

My snow blowers including a Cub Cadet and Troy Built will only do that if the choke is adjusted wrong. Im certain they should always run smoothly.

I haven’t been out yet but it looks like yet another 2.5 to 3″ since I blew it out yesterday.

i cleaned up last night about dark thirty!! got another inch after that!!!!!

I have a Cub Cadet 2 stage and it also surges as explained above, I have to go back & forth between 1/4 choke and no choke, depending on the load.

Waited till I got home to clean it up. My guess was 4-5” of course it snowed another 1/2 or so after I finished. Good news is my snowblower fired right up and worked great. I hope it’s the last time I need to use it this year

I don’t think it even dropped below freezing at my house. And it may not again for several more days. Tomorrow the weather terrorists are saying about 1/2+ inch of rain. Say good bye snow

I think we got rain around Christmas last year too. Interesting weather for late December.

Looks like 4 days of slightly warmer weather for this area. Then it cools off to near normal temps. Be nice if we could get another 4-5 ” of nice ice before any more measurable snow.

fishthumper wrote:

Looks like 4 days of slightly warmer weather for this area. Then it cools off to near normal temps. Be nice if we could get another 4-5 ” of nice ice before any more measurable snow.

the ice block i just pulled out is 14 inches.

Could be worse we are in a tornado watch in Houston LOL

The nice thing with all this rain and snow, droughts over. Might be a flood again this spring.

glenn57 wrote:

the ice block i just pulled out is 14 inches.

Was that out in the cold spring area?

he’s up north fishthumper..

Fishthumper, I am guessing Glenn is up near Bowstring but not sure. I was out in Cold Spring Tuesday and Wednesday and am guessing near somewhere around 10″+ of ice as there were a few crew cab side by sides and even a few smaller wheel houses (towed by atv or sxs) out on the East end of the chain. The river channel by the 49 bridge was almost open shore to shore last night with a few hundred swans keeping it open.

Yea up north. Little Turtle lake by talmoon to be exact. Spearing. 6 hours in the house ne er seen a pike. Off to a different lake in the morning.

I’m on 12 right now south of home. Can see 5 or 6 trucks out. And crappies are biting. Hopefully we don’t get much rain

I found as little as 5” of ice and as much as 7.5 on Pepin today, with people running wheelers all over the general area.

This weather needs to either finish melting this remaining snow off and then just pivot to 50 degrees, or start getting back to normal and get us another measurable snowfall to make typical winter recreation a possibility.

We had 7” of snowfall with that last event confirmed by NWS, and it will be 0” by the end of tomorrow.

buckybadger wrote:

I found as little as 5” of ice and as much as 7.5 on Pepin today, with people running wheelers all over the general area.

This weather needs to either finish melting this remaining snow off and then just pivot to 50 degrees, or start getting back to normal and get us another measurable snowfall to make typical winter recreation a possibility.

We had 7” of snowfall with that last event confirmed by NWS, and it will be 0” by the end of tomorrow.

Oh it’s great. Keep the wheel houses and trucks off the lakes. There’s only been a couple days of struggling to keep water flowing at work, I can’t say I mind at all. My snowmobiles can keep sitting in the shed.

Up here in the northland it’s already 32 degrees with the expected hi of 39. At least they toke the rain out of the forecast, for now,

Light rain here this morning.

Still a little slushy snow left but its getting eaten quickly. The next “cold” day isn’t until after New Years and even that looks more like average, not bitter cold. No snow in the 10 day forecast either.

I was watching Max Velocity on Youtube and he was talking about cold air moving in next week and even colder air after that but not much moisture in our area. Great news for making ice.

Supposedly was to rain all day….haven’t seen a drop.