Snow cover fading fast across Minnesota
Twin Cities lost 6 inches of snow in a week.
Going, going, gone.
Minnesota’s mild March is doing a number on snow cover across the state. So far March is running about 8 degrees warmer than average in the Twin Cities. Parts of western Minnesota are running more than 10 degrees warmer than average so far.
The mild weather is creating a disappearing act for snow across the region. There is basically bare ground or just patchy snow roughly south and west of I-94 from Fargo to the Twin Cities.
A few inches of snow tenuously cling to the ground in the north and east Twin Cities. And the snow is deeper in the north woods with 18 inches still reported at Wolf Ridge ELC near Finland.
NASA’s MODIS Terra 1,000-meter visible satellite image Monday shows the bare ground across much of the region, with snow hugging Lake Superior.
Tuesday’s record highs in the 60s will further erode snow cover across our region.
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