Category: Gardening

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Major Winter Storm Targeting The Area. 8-13″ of Accumulation With Higher Ammounts Possible. Major Travel Impacts with Very Heavy Snow Reducing Visibilities.

Regional Weather View Another major snowstorm is targeting the Upper Midwest only this time is has it’s highest impacts set to take place in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Northern Iowa, Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. A strong low pressure system will race Southeastward from North Dakota and take a rather interesting path which will …

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Quiet weather for the rest of the week/weekend. Turning sunny starting off on cool side then warming. Next chance of snow early next week.

Regional Weather View. The weather is quieting down after yet another snowstorm impacted the southern part of the Midwest. Thius snowstorm re established a thick snowcover that covers the entire region from north to south, a rare observance for this late into winter. The weather for the region will start off rather cloudy with gradual …

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February 22nd Midwest Snowstorms effect on Southeast Minnesota Report 4-9″ of snow accumulated area wide.

Snowy conditions February 22nd 2012  A blanket of 4-9″ of new snow now covers the ground here in Southeastern Minnesota, which came in a storm that effected a larger part of the Midwest states. This storms history goes back to California where it originated. The storm organized into a major snowstorm near Colorado and spread …

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Details on the upcoming Thursday snowstorm. Heavy snow likely with 4-8″ accumulation. Snow will effect travel on Friday. Dry for the weekend before setting up for a 2nd storm on Monday-Tuesday?

Regional Weather View Attention is currently on a large storm system which will impact a very large part of the Upper Midwest coming up in the next couple days. A low pressure system coming from the Colorado area will move ENE in the vicinity of Missouri and Illinois, spreading widespread heavy snows across a large …

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Sunday into Mondays storm system 0.30- to over 1″ of rain seen.

A look down a Rochester sidewalk Monday February 12th 2013 A strong storm system effected Minnesota Sunday and Monday this week greatly effecting the weather across the state. Northwest Minnesota saw the worst of the storm. Blizzard conditions with heavy snows totaling 15 inches I-94 was closed due to blowing snow with 45MPH winds seen. …

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Midwest Storm system to bring a mess of first sleet//freezing rain then rain, then snow to Southeastern Minnesota which could cause some problems. 0.25-0.50″ rain then Minor accumulations of snow come Monday

Regional View Attention nationally is on a 2013 Blizzard effecting the northeast U.S but will soon be turned to the next major winter storm with a low pressure system expected to impact the Upper Midwest starting tomorrow. The low will track from Nebraska across Southern Minnesota into Central Wisconsin. The track of this storm will …

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Sneek peak at Sundays/Mondays storm. Were likely to be in the warm side and we will see sleet, rain, possibly even thunderstorms and very little in the way of snow ammounts.

Regional Weather View weekend sneakpeak The map above is showing the system concerning this weekends expected event it’s a sneakpeak, but a good idea what the models are coming into agreement with at this point. The models take the low pressure from this storm up in the Twin Cities area or just southeast of that …

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February 5th early morning very heavy snow burst delivers 2-3″ of snow in short period

Photo of the heavy snow early morning February 5th 2013  We have definitely been thrown into a winter pattern that we have not been seeing for quite some time. This morning yet another clipper delivered a burst of very heavy snow dropping a widespread 2-3″ across all areas, with the highest amounts being seen in central …

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Finally starting to be more like Winter thanks to the Clipper system parade

Rochester Neighborhood February 4th 2013 Were finally getting a real taste of winter here in Southeastern Minnesota. Something that has been significantly lacking the past couple of winters. Because of the jet stream being located just southwest of the area and systems available to ride it southwestward one behind each other like floats in a …

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Biggest system arrives tonight of the Clipper System Parade 3-5″ expected. Next system arrives Monday followed by a warm up into the 30s by Tuesday. Updated X1

Regional Weather View Continued active pattern at least for the northern part of the Upper Midwest as several clipper systems move in from the northwest each bringing minor accumulations to the areas in blue above. The clipper systems track looks to shift northward with the passing of each one so the southern portion of the …