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2023 Midwest Flooding

Because of all the snow we got over the winter, the Midwest is experiencing a major flooding event for those communities by major rivers, such as the Mississippi River.  Here's a video Dubuque just put out announcing they closed off the flood wall.    The floodwall was built in the early 1970s after major floods in the 1960s.  Back in the days where those in Congress in both parties had some level of concern for the American people.  Now I don't think there's any way suc
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Another January Snowstorm

Had some snow today up in the Twin Cities. Iowa also had a bit of snow today as well with eastern Iowa getting about to 1 to 6 inches of snow.  I didn't have any trouble getting to or from work today even with the weather hitting the fan.  Supposed to be clear out tomorrow but it a bit colder.  Depending on what the mortgage and realtor say tomorrow might go looking at some more places tomorrow.  Regardless I'm going to try to sleep in a bit tomorrow morning.
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Fornicate. Winter is coming.

Yeah, looks like winter is coming to the upper Midwest.  Fornicate. Looks like North Dakota is getting the brunt but winter is also hitting Montana, South Dakota, and parts of northwest Minnesota.  One of my FB friends from law school lives in SW Minnesota so I got a message out to her asking how the weather is out there.  I'm not ready for winter yet.  Ugh,
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Snow! Snow! And More Snow!

Still snowing up here today.  Originally we were supposed to have an in office day today so we'd be able to have a team meeting but they decided to let us all work from home today.  Supposed to keep snowing all day today into tomorrow.  Between today and tonight we could get about another six inches of snow. Here's another view from my patio... I'm ready for spring now.    
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Winter Storm to Ring In the New Year

Looks like we're in for a few days of it now. It looks like I'm right at the freezing rain/heavy snow border here in the Twin Cities.  I got back to Minneapolis just as the weather was starting to hit today.  Glad I got back when I did. 
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Winter Storm Update

It's snowing out pretty good right now.  The NWS is saying we're going to get about 4 to 7 inches of snow over the next day or so.  According to the DOT the roads in the Twin Cities have some light snow on them but the roads are covered with snow and ice south of the metro. Pretty much sitting at home today and tomorrow and not doing too much.  Might walk over to the grocery store later today to get a few things but it's just a day to sit at home and just relax.
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The Winterpire Strikes Back

Last week when I was down in Iowa the snow pretty much melted up here in the Twin Cities.  Well we got it all back today. More winter fun in the spoiler. Of course today the electric company had a scheduled outage in my neighborhood and my power was supposed to be down from 10 to 2 today.  So I went in to the office.  I have no idea if the outage went off as scheduled or if they're going to do it again tomorrow.  We're under a winter storm warning until 9pm.  My coworker m
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The February 2023 Snowpocalypse Has Passed

The weather had pretty much passed through by 2:00pm today and it started to clear up.  According to the non-sharpiefied NWS where I am in the Twin Cities had about 13 inches of snow total, give or take.  I'm glad I decided to wait until tomorrow before I go down for the various family parties this weekend.  Even though the weather has pretty much gone through that's more time for the roads to get better.  Hopefully it'll be quiet for a while now.  Here's a few more photos from this af
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Yeah We're In It Now

Winter Storm Olive has been through the Twin Cities area.  It started yesterday afternoon and by late afternoon it was coming down pretty good.  Looks like we'll be getting 10 to 16 inches of snow by tomorrow evening.  Here's a few photos I took last night and this morning.  I think I'll be staying home today and not doing too much.   
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Looks Like Iowa's Getting Hit Again

Earlier this week forecasters were saying that we could be seeing a major winter storm later this week here in Minnesota but now it looks like the heavier stuff will go south of us and be down in Iowa again.   Before today it looked like up here in the Twins we were going to be seeing some weather and I think they had a winter storm watch/warning before but they slid back to winter weather advisory for Thursday into Friday. It was snowing after work today but when I went out it w
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Dubuque Had Record Snow Yesterday

Dubuque had the largest amount of snow to fall in a single day in over 8 years yesterday. Before that the last time Dubuque received that much snow in a single day was on Feb 1, 2015 when ten inches fell.  That was also the last time Dubuque had double digit snow fall.  We used to get those on a semi-annual basis but not in recent years. It's supposed to be a bit quieter this weekend and warmer too so I don't think that snow will hang around too long. Even up here in the Twin Ci
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Spring is Finally Arriving

Spring may finally be arriving up here. It got up above 70 today. And not only are yards turning green, but various plants are finally starting to bud as well.  Once trees and other plants start budding full leaves are not too far off.  I was able to go out today without a jacket and felt fine. Supposed to be nice, warm, and sunny up here in Minneapolis tomorrow. Sister and brother-in-law picked a good weekend to visit. We’re planning to go see the Twins tomorrow. 
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Snow's About to Hit the Fan Here in Minnesota

Looks like we'll be getting some more weather up here in Minnesota.  I guess it's payback for missing out on the storm that hit Iowa a couple weeks ago.  Various sources are saying we might get as much as two feet of snow.  Of course it depends who one listens to. This is the joke that we all mention when the winter storms come in... God only knows how much we'll get now.  I think even just yesterday they were saying maybe an inch in the metro and light snow at most in Iowa - and
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Twin Cities Had Just Over 80 Inches of Snow This Season

Here in the Twin Cities we broke the 80" marker for total snowfall, making it the 8th snowiest season on record. The most the Twin Cities received on record was 98.6" in the 1983/84 season.  I hope that we're done with snow for the season but it would not surprise me at all if we weren't.  Both Iowa and Minnesota have had some nasty winter storms in April.  The Twin Cities could move up one or maybe even two more spots in amount received even if we just get as much as they're predict
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Mount Eden Prairie

There's a pile of snow cleared in a Target parking lot here in the Twin Cities it has been named Mount Eden Prairie. It's also been called Mount Target and one Minnesota woman painted a picture of Minnesota's most famous mound of snow.  Experts think it'll stick around until mid May. I can believe that.  I worked at a manufacturing plant that was over a mile long with an almost equally long parking lot so they had quite the snow piles which wouldn't disappear until May or even the fi
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Looks Like Iowa's Getting Hit

Right now the local news sources are saying there will be about 3 to 6 inches of snow, with a winter storm warning hitting parts of Eastern Iowa. For once it looks like we're not getting hit up north by this same storm, that we'll be north of the storm.  Right now they're just saying it'll be cloudy but we'll have to see how it all turns out here in the Twin Cities.  It was up in the mid 40s today so I did toy with getting my bike out for some riding today.  Maybe closer to spring I'
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Warm Up Coming

It's cold and blustery out today.  The temperature is about 35° but it feels like it's half that right now.  Trucks on I-35 are having some issues because of the wind out in the open country.  In the coming days it's supposed to be a different story in both the Twin Cities and Dubuque.  Sunday it's supposed to be 63° in Minneapolis and 70° down in Dubuque.  Might get up into the 80s down in Dubuque next week and someone at work was saying she heard the Twin Cities might also hit the 80s nex
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Looks Like We're Getting Hammered This Week

Today was fairly nice out, with mostly sunny skies and the temp getting up to about 45 F.  Looks like we're about to pay for it though.  Both with more snow and temps nose-diving. I'm glad my new gig is 100% remote since it'll enable me to just stay home the next few days.
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Haboob Hit The Midwest

There was an intense dust storm that moved through the Upper Midwest (IA, SD, NE, and MN) Thursday. And there is actually a name for what happened too. The NWS said they can occur anywhere but usually occur in the Southwest.
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Meanwhile in Minneapolis

Yeah we got hit up in the Twin Cities this evening; I got home to find the joint still intact and with electrical power so I'm relieved. 
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Hey TV People

When you’re drawing on the weather map it’s probably a good idea to avoid phallic looking stuff. 
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Brrr

Current temperature in Bloomington  I'd rather have this than a Branch Trumpvidian government, hands down. I changed the name of the blog since I'll be doing more Minnesota weather reports.  I'll still do Iowa when I go back to visit or if I hear of weather stuff there.
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Dubuque Got 24.3 Inches of Snow

According to the City of Dubuque, the area received 24.3 inches of snow over the past few days. I feel bad now.  The majority of the snow all went south of the Twin Cities so the Metro didn't even receive two inches. Where I live we got about .5 to .8 inches of snow. And over the next few days it's supposed to get quite cold even before wind chill is figured in.  Sunday they're saying a high of zero and a low of -8, with it getting much colder in northern Minnesota.  I'm k
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It's Fornicating Cold Out

Yeah, in the Upper Midwest it was goddamn cold this morning.  I just saw this from KCRG in Iowa a few minutes ago... When I was heading to church this morning the wind chill was -24, with the actual temperature being about -8.  The current temperature is hovering around 0 with a wind chill of -17.  We were actually warmer up here than most of my family in Iowa today.  I attribute most of that to the fact the skies were clear in Iowa while up here we were mostly cloudy - hence more ins
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