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Spring break surprise

Spring break is almost over, and classes resume on Monday, maybe.

So of course nature is getting its revenge. We’re under a blizzard watch from 7pm tonight until Monday at 4pm, as my students are trying to get back, but already I’m hearing from some that flights are delayed or cancelled. Classes are going to be under “reduced operations” on Monday, but they aren’t canceled, so I’ll be teaching over Zoom. Whee!

It’s already snowing.

Welcome back to Minnesota, gang!

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  1. dennyk says

    And in the west, a widespread, unprecedented March heatwave is expected to arrive starting next week. Here in the PNW it feels like winter passed us by. My yard is a veritable jungle right now, daring me and my arthritic bones to come take it on. Gonna be a yellow jacket bonanza this summer with all the queens overwintering with nary a scratch.

  2. gijoel says

    I’m half expecting to see an dad and son pushing a shopping trolley down that road.

  3. Reginald Selkirk says

    Expansive March storm ramping up, bringing snow, strong winds to millions

    Winter Storm Warnings stretch from Montana to Michigan, with a smattering of Blizzard Warnings across South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and the upper peninsula of Michigan. Slivers of Illinois and Nebraska are under warnings as well…
    By the time snow winds down on Monday, a widespread swath of 3 to 6 inches of snow will be likely from Montana to the northern fringes of Upstate New York. The heaviest snow is expected from the Twin Cities east into the Great Lakes, where accumulations may be on the order of feet and not inches. Even areas not under the Blizzard Warning will be subject blowing snow and reduced visibility.

    Doesn’t that give you a nice rosy feeling of solidarity?

  4. billseymour says

    We’ll be getting that tomorrow night and Monday morning in St. Louis.  We don’t expect lots of snow, but the roads might be a bit slippery for the Monday commute.  We are expecting high winds.

  6. Tethys says

    It must be MN High School Hockey Tournament season. March is traditionally when MN gets our heaviest snowfall of the season. It usually melts pretty quickly though not quickly enough that we won’t have to shovel it away. Hopefully we won’t get snow in April too, that’s so depressing Prince wrote a song about it.

  8. Hemidactylus says

    It’s gonna go down into the low 50s/high 40s in my part of Florida next week. As Lost in Space’s Dr Smith would say: “Oh the pain!”

    We might get heavy storms. Not seeing any tornadic threat yet. No Reed Timmer.

    On a more meta angle we might see a historically robust El Nino in fall. As happy as that makes me per possibly low Atlantic tropical angle it might be crappy elsewhere.

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