Ask any Minnesota snow-lover if life is fair. It never has been and never will be. We still see occasional flashes of bygone winters, but most years? Meh.
For the record, MSP snowfall this winter is 37.2 inches, half an inch below the 30-year normal, with 4 inches on the ground. In stark contrast, Providence, Rhode Island, saw a record-smashing 37.9 inches from a recent blizzard; a whopping 41 inches was reported at Falls River, Mass. Crazy. In five hours, Providence saw more snow (13 inches) than Denver has received all winter.
Tuesday’s dribbly “ice event” is history, and despite Wednesday’s bright sunshine, temperatures will struggle to hit 20 degrees. That’s about as cold as it’s going to get anytime soon. Temps in the 30s return next week, then 40s and a shot at 50 by the second week of March. Polar vortex season appears to be winding down.
An average 8.2 inches of snow falls in March in the metro, but it’s wet/slushy and often melts within a day or two. Not getting my hopes up.
For the record, the biggest MSP single-storm snow total since 1871 was 28.4 inches during the ‘91 Halloween storm.
