Occasional flakes continue; January to finish 5 degrees warmer than average?
Occasional light snow causing a few slick streets
It’s been an occasional snow globe around southern Minnesota and Wisconsin lately.
Minnesota is riding the northern edge of a low-pressure system in Missouri. Occasional snow showers continue to rotate around the low through Friday. The system pulls off into the Great Lakes and drier high pressure builds in by Saturday. NOAA’s GFS model captures the system evolution.
Light accumulations
I picked up about an inch of snow here at the Weather Lab in Victoria over the past 24 hours. But a few locations in the east Twin Cities metro area, southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin got 2 inches or more.
1 NE Stillwater [Washington Co, MN] COCORAHS reports SNOW of 2.00 INCH at 7:08 AM CST -- COCORAHS STATION MN-WG-20 STILLWATER 1NE.
Zumbrota [Goodhue Co, MN] CO-OP OBSERVER reports SNOW of 2.00 INCH at 7:00 AM CST -- CO-OP OBSERVER STATION ZBRM5 ZUMBROTA.
1 NNE Woodbury [Washington Co, MN] COCORAHS reports SNOW of 2.40 INCH at 7:00 AM CST -- COCORAHS STATION MN-WG-16 WOODBURY 1.7 N.
1 NNW Owatonna [Steele Co, MN] CO-OP OBSERVER reports SNOW of 2.00 INCH at 8:00 AM CST -- CO-OP OBSERVER STATION OWAM5 OWATONNA.
Main roads have been pretty good, but lesser-traveled roads are slick in spots.
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Mild January finish
The average high and low for the Twin Cities are 24 and 7 these days. Temperatures will continue to run a good 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average through next week. Daytime highs hover near the thawing point. Nights will be especially mild when compared to the average low of 7 degrees.
January is running about 3 degrees warmer than average in the Twin Cities so far. With temperatures 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average over the next week, we’ll likely finish the month at least 5 degrees warmer than average.
There are still signs of somewhat colder air in early February. But the medium-range models backed-off the intensity of that cold today.
Stay tuned.