Mankato : how bad is the snow ? (Duluth, St. Cloud: college, live in, vs)

[joe_obody999]

Okay i did HS, college in Mankato before moving to Mnpls then Duluth. Mankato for me was a long time ago. Can any locals in Mankato remind me what winters are like, as I am contemplating moving back to North Mankato at least on my short list of cities. How long are the winters? Here in Duluth it is a SOLID six months of winter, sometimes seven months from when snow arrives until it is finally gone. I am trying to remember Mankato but it has been so long. 4 months of winter? 3 months of winter? I remember generally about a foot of snow on the ground at its worst, maybe 18 inches max but mostly a foot at the worst, is that about right? Although with climate change it seems i would see on the weather Mankato getting worse snowfall than Duluth some winters in the past decade.

[demtion35]

Originally Posted by joe_obody999

Okay i did HS, college in Mankato before moving to Mnpls then Duluth. Mankato for me was a long time ago. Can any locals in Mankato remind me what winters are like, as I am contemplating moving back to North Mankato at least on my short list of cities. How long are the winters? Here in Duluth it is a SOLID six months of winter, sometimes seven months from when snow arrives until it is finally gone. I am trying to remember Mankato but it has been so long. 4 months of winter? 3 months of winter? I remember generally about a foot of snow on the ground at its worst, maybe 18 inches max but mostly a foot at the worst, is that about right? Although with climate change it seems i would see on the weather Mankato getting worse snowfall than Duluth some winters in the past decade.

Probably about the same as other towns in that region. It is not that bad.

[wolfman1]

Honestly, if you've lived in Duluth, Mankato should be a piece of cake.

I personally moved here from North Dakota, and found that spring starts 2 weeks earlier here, and the lakes thaw a couple of weeks earlier than in St. Cloud, etc.

The amount of snow is not that bad. Having said that, we will get blizzards that can dump 6+ inches of snow in a short amount of time (but where CAN'T that happen in the upper Midwest)?

Out of the roughly 13 years we've now lived here, at least 6 of those years have seen enough warm weeks in January/February where the snow has almost completely melted. It will snow again, even in to April rarely, but again I feel that the springtime comes at least 2 weeks earlier here than in areas even 100 miles north of here.

[Kamsack]

While Mankato will have more wind with there snows in many cases....they are significantly less snowy and will melt their snowcover during the winter in many seasons vs in Duluth where it doesnt. I live in East Grand Forks MN (near Crookston and TRF) and significant differences between Mankato's length of winter and where I live now.