Snow in St. Paul, Part 3:



Yet another winter day here in Minnesota. Mostly just flurries for the last 24 hours resulting in abut an inch of powdery flakes the fall slowly and blow away easily.

Snow removal is mostly a problem of temporary storage - and the folks in the American Siberia of the northern mid-west are expert at it, having managed it for generations. As you can see here, the airport runways and aprons are basically clear but they were still working on scraping the last few millimeters of ice and snow off.

More snow flurries are forecast for this afternoon and on through tomorrow - but the following high pressure was already slipping in, driving the temperature down ten degrees. The temperature is supposed to continue it's downward trek for the next few days. I was glad to be leaving for the winter temperatures of Seattle.

Snow in St. Paul, Part 2:



Another winter day here in Minnesota. It's been snowing in fits and starts, flurries and flakes since yesterday evening. Not as much accumulation, and of course, yesterday's accumulation has settled in part, so some of the early, delicate piles are gone. Instead we get some interesting textures and lots of brown and gray stuff from the sand and ice and mud.

More snow in the forecast for 2 more days.

Snow in St. Paul:



Winter here in Minnesota, obviously. It began snowing about 10:30 pm last night and has been snowing non-stop ever since. The forecast is for the storm to finally peter out into flurries late Friday into Saturday, with about 10 inches / 25 cm on the ground by then, on top of the 3" / 8 cm already there.

Not cold fortunately but lots of wind, so it's drifting a bit. Drifts are a good and bad thing - amazing shapes and behaviours, snow devils (think dust devil with snow) and all but also the pleasures of getting stuck in hotel parking lots.