Upper Midwest Daily Snow

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By Andrew Murray, Technical Founder & Meteorologist Posted 7 years ago November 28, 2016

Rain, rain, go away

Summary

No snow in the forecast for the next week.

Short Term Forecast

The (warm) storm that I talked about last week is here and pretty much as forecasted. Right now, all of the precipitation across the area has fallen as rain. This was especially impressive for areas along I-94 this morning which saw a line of thunderstorms sit over the area for almost 6 hours. The MSP airport has already reports 1.3” of rain, now only wishing it would have fallen as all snow (could have been more than a foot).

This low pressure system will drift around the Great Lakes region for the next 72-ish hours, with much of the moisture moving off to the north and east and only showers and clouds lingering around the region until Thursday afternoon. There should be enough moisture hanging around, and temperatures should cool enough that areas on the North Shore and UP could see precipitation finally switch over to snow by Tuesday. However, accumulations should be meager with only an inch or two during the week.

Model snowfall totals through Friday night.

As for further south, we stay grey and warm, and with lows staying above freezing until Thursday. It is going to make it hard for anywhere to even keep making snow, let alone how much the rain last night and this morning affected the snow already blown.

Extended Forecast

Looking towards the weekend and next week for hope, things don’t look any better. Right now high pressure will settle in over the area for the weekend that should bring our temperatures down slightly, but still well above average for the first week of December. Luckily I think overnight temperatures will start staying below freezing starting on Friday morning, so it should give more southern locations a better change to make some snow.

Next week the models are all over the place with the next low pressure system. The GFS has a clipper following along the Canadian border in the most recent model run, and a cutoff low from the Rockies two model runs earlier. The European is more consistant run-to-run, but has a completely different solution, with a low moving up from Texas and missing the entire region with the exception of eastern Wisconsin.

Regardless, winter will hopefully come. Eventually.

Andrew

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Andrew Murray

Technical Founder & Meteorologist

Andrew manages the technology that powers OpenSnow, and he also keeps an eye on the weather for the Upper Midwest from his home base in Minneapolis since 2015.

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