By Todd Nelson, filling in for Douglas:
Douglas: Snow today? A thaw is coming next week
There’s an outside chance we could flirt with 40 degrees.
The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 23, 2025 at 8:59PM
A friend from Louisiana called me and said, “You can keep your snow.” I didn’t realize that the four-letter S-word was disliked so much.
An inconceivable amount of snow fell across parts of the Deep South earlier this week. Eight inches in New Orleans is the heaviest snowfall there in modern-day records and the city’s biggest amount in more than 100 years. It’s hard to comprehend that some locations saw more snow in one day than we’ve had all winter. Note that MSP is nearly 17 inches below normal for the season and St. Cloud is nearly 10 inches below normal. To date, MSP airport is off to its 16th-least snowy start to any winter season on record. Last year at this time, we were sitting at the ninth-least snowy start. My gut tells me that February and March will be quite a bit snowier than what we’ve seen so far. Either that or I ate some bad guacamole.
A light coating of snow is possible today, with a much-needed thaw on the way early next week. There’s an outside chance we could flirt with 40 degrees next week, too. Is it too early for shorts?
There’s an outside chance we could flirt with 40 degrees.
