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Heavy snow event for parts of North Dakota into northern Minnesota today March 31st... in that 10-15 inch range Grand Forks area combined with wind gusts to 50 mph. Temperature down to 18F at the moment (230 am CDT)
No, it's not normal. We lost our snow maybe a week and a half ago, but some areas close by still have their snowpack. Local bike paths still have snow, which I have never seen here before this late. Usually by the middle of March all the snow is gone even in the coldest winters. For this area, it might be one of the coldest March (second or third?) on record. Average was closer to a typical January (this March was 39/19). You were mostly wrong here:
most years it would be true. Next week looks roughly normal here, and a big rainstorm is passing through (50+ mm) which should melt all the snow. April has the biggest warm-up so it would be hard for Maine to have any snow left other than maybe a few days here and there. Of course the highest elevations will still have snow in May, mountains can have snow on the slopes at the end of May even in a normal year.
What about Labrador? Will it still be snow covered when I fly over at the end of june?
I got sleet mixing in with the rain here now. Atmosphere changing and getting cold aloft. Upper level low right over the area so there is a pool of cold air above.
Take a look at the sounding. Surface is above freezing but as you go up in height it drops slightly below freezing, then goes above, then is below all the way up.
So basically moisture is falling from 8,000 feet as thick snow, it hits the pocket of 0C and above and the flakes melt to rain but since it's a small layer maybe not everything is melting to rain, then it hits the below freezing pocket coming down further at about 1500 feet and refreezes some rain drops and falls as mix rain/sleet at surface.
Now I got snow mix! Awesome changes up there,. My temp is now 33.8°F
I still can't believe it's snowing, the flakes are simply humongous, and falling heavily. And it's supposed to be in the 50's (with sunshine) later on.
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