Global Warming Update In Minnesota -- March 10, 2019

From a reader this morning on the state of winter/spring -- snow/rain affairs in Minnesota.

So far this winter / spring:  69 inches of snow and .72 inch rain.

We are forecast to have rain on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week, approximately 1.4 inches of rain.

East of here near Rochester, MN, add about 15-20 inch on to the snow total.

The whole region: both Dakotas, all of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the two-thirds of Iowa have snow, snow, and more snow.

On top of that, the entire region was put into winter WET.

Folks I know around here from years ago (when they had whitetail deer season) could not cross the rivers, because the rivers were three-to-five feet deep. They remember because they could not get to their deer stands.

Thursday evening, a local weather station in Mankato (KEYC) Keyc were suggesting that this year's "flood" season could be like it was in 1965 - 1966. In the rural areas there are some roads that have a 25 -100-yard-long snow drift on one or both sides, drifts that are 6-7 ft tall.

South bound highways in the area are bad, but the east/west highways are even worse.

Some suggest that this winter ranks up there with:

• 1965-1966, Mapleton, 
• 1976 - 1978, Akeley, 
• 1997- 1998, Akeley, and,
• 2010 - 2011 in Bowman, ND.

The reader looks for a baby boom late this year. 

I forget the year, but I do remember the huge floods Iowa experience on I-29; shut down the interstate for a long, long time.

And I doubt anyone in North Dakota/Minnesota will forget the Red River - Grand Forks 1997 fire and flood.  

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