
Rapid Melting As Temperature Mellow
"Hi, I'm Paul. Your court-appointed weather therapist. Have a seat. Yes, these feelings of inadequacy and frustration are perfectly normal. No question, March in Minnesota is mentally-taxing. No, you're not alone. 60s one day, knee-deep slush the next? That's tough on our mental health, which was already taking a beating. I can write you a prescription. Would 50s in a few days help?"
If you've lived in Minnesota longer than 10 minutes you know how fickle springs can be. I'll be relieved if we don't see blizzards in April this year.
If you don't like snow just stick around. Today's sun angle is as high in the sky as it was on September 26. Most of the snow will melt by Thursday. Really. Most of Minnesota is too dry; moisture from yesterday's slop-storm will nourish topsoil moisture levels across southern Minnesota.
The mercury mellows above 50F by late week with an outside shot at 60 degrees on Sunday.
A cold rain arrives early next week. It's just Mother Nature's way of keeping things interesting. I know, a little too interesting...

How Much Fell? The snowfall gradient across the greater MSP metro area was extraordinary, from 9.5" at New Prague to .5" at Forest Lake and Lindstrom. But close-in suburbs picked up 2-3" with 3-5" just south of the Minnesota River. For the latest totals click here.

Colorado and Wyoming See Record Blizzard, Historic Snowfall in Denver and Cheyenne. Capital Weather Gang has a good overview of a wild late-season snow blitz: "...As of 5 a.m. Monday, Cheyenne, Wyo., had received 30.8 inches of snow in the storm, with drifts as high as four feet. The snowfall topped the city's previous record of 25.2 inches for any two-day period and 25.6 inches for any three-day period, both set in November 1979. Denver International Airport (DIA), the city's official weather-observation site, recorded 27.1 inches of wind-driven snow on Saturday and Sunday. This ranks as the second-largest two-day snowstorm on record for Denver, behind only the mammoth 37.4 inches recorded on December 4 to 5 in 1913. It's also the largest three-day total since 2003..."