Late snows

[MNCYWX]

Biggest, so late in the season: May 1-3, 2013 in Minnesota/Iowa

Blooming Prairie, MN and Owatonna, MN unofficially had 20" of snow. Osage, IA set the state snowfall record for May with 13". Chariton, in southern Iowa, had 12". Impressive for being so far south.

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/maysnow
https://www.weather.gov/arx/may0213

Most insane winter event I've ever had the pleasure of covering.

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[MNCYWX]

Biggest, so late in the season: May 1-3, 2013 in Minnesota/Iowa

Blooming Prairie, MN and Owatonna, MN unofficially had 20" of snow. Osage, IA set the state snowfall record for May with 13". Chariton, in southern Iowa, had 12". Impressive for being so far south.

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/maysnow
https://www.weather.gov/arx/may0213

Most insane winter event I've ever had the pleasure of covering.

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Then places in southern Minnesota hit 100 12 days later.

 

[cowboycurtis]

Biggest, so late in the season: May 1-3, 2013 in Minnesota/Iowa

Blooming Prairie, MN and Owatonna, MN unofficially had 20" of snow. Osage, IA set the state snowfall record for May with 13". Chariton, in southern Iowa, had 12". Impressive for being so far south.

https://www.weather.gov/dmx/maysnow
https://www.weather.gov/arx/may0213

Most insane winter event I've ever had the pleasure of covering.

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This weather event almost ended my farming career. Most farmers around here don’t even want to bring it up. We were still planting corn in June. There was an article on KCCI about suicide in agriculture recently. I don’t know of any that happened that spring but I know the liquor sales had to be way up and I was a huge contributor.

 

[mywayorcyway]

I used to travel to Minneapolis for work quite a bit. ~6 years ago I was there on May 1 and it snowed a crazy amount, like 18". I have pictures of me with my rental car, looking defeated, ready to end it all. I was back there the same year on June 15, and it was 100*. I went golfing with a co-worker and said "why in the **** do you people live here?"

 

[Iastfan112]

I used to travel to Minneapolis for work quite a bit. ~6 years ago I was there on May 1 and it snowed a crazy amount, like 18". I have pictures of me with my rental car, looking defeated, ready to end it all. I was back there the same year on June 15, and it was 100*. I went golfing with a co-worker and said "why in the **** do you people live here?"

It was this storm: https://www.weather.gov/images/dmx/SigEvents/2013-05-03_RecordSnow/SnowMapWide.PNG

Even in Minneapolis large snowfalls in May are incredibly rare.

 

[Al_4_State]

May 2013. I think it's the only measurable May snow in my lifetime.

 

[kevdiv48]

Early May 2013, I remember studying for finals with snow outside.

 

[Cyclonepride]

What is the cause, more strange happenings with the polar vortex? Or just strange pattern for this time of year? Or something completely unrelated to these two items that show my limited knowledge of weather.

Seriously, should we all know a little more about weather? You would think that might be a little more important topic during school. I don't know maybe not.

Seems to me that the location of the jet stream is as important as any factor (though I am sure other factors cause that location). No idea why they no longer show that on the weather maps, as it will pretty much tell you the story of what is happening next.

 

[Al_4_State]

Then places in southern Minnesota hit 100 12 days later.

I remember being in a parking lot somewhere that week (the 14th) where the thermometer in my car said 100, and I was looking right at the remnants of the giant snow pile that had been assembled during the snow storm. I know a took a picture of it, but that was several phones ago.

 

[MNCYWX]

I remember being in a parking lot somewhere that week (the 14th) where the thermometer in my car said 100, and I was looking right at the remnants of the giant snow pile that had been assembled during the snow storm. I know a took a picture of it, but that was several phones ago.

Same. I just couldn't find the picture I took! Otherwise I would have posted it.

 

[Omaha Cy]

My dad told me about a Memorial Day weekend snow storm in the late 40's or early 50's. They got about 6-8" and the weight of the snow, coupled with the trees being bloomed/leafed out, dropped limbs on a lot of fence line. Dad was supposed to go pitch town team baseball for a town about 40 miles away, but instead he spent the day chasing cows and fencing. When he talked to some of the guys he was supposed to play ball with a couple weeks later, they wondered why he didn't show. They didn't get anything and still played a double header.

/csb.

This!!!
I've had a lot of old timers tell me about this storm.

 

[Tony Gunk]

April 8-10, 1973 – Iowa Blizzard

https://nws.weather.gov/blog/nwsdesmoines/2016/04/10/april-8-10-1973-iowa-blizzard/

My younger brother was born on April 10 that year. Mom had to get out to the highway on a snowmobile to get to the hospital.

 

[YeahBuddy]

2013. Still have the pictures on my phone. Actually snowed two consecutive days where I was for a total of about 12". I remember looking out my kitchen window and thinking I'd be mowing lawn between patches of snow in June. I think it was completely gone in about 4-5 days though.

This.

I remember how odd it was to have green grass under snow that was melting.

 

[Cyfan1965]

My younger brother was born on April 10 that year. Mom had to get out to the highway on a snowmobile to get to the hospital.

We could not get out our front door for three days. I could walk up on top of our garage that was totally barried and sled down the street to the school. Walking back was not fun

 

[Bret44]

I fishing the day before that crazy May Snow storm. I was so pissed when I woke up to all that snow on the ground. I remember looking at the horizon while fishing thinking that those clouds don't look great.

 

[madguy30]

I remember it snowing about 5 inches in 1993 on April 5. Not sure why that sticks out.

I know I've seen at least a little dusting in May, and have been up north (UPish) numerous times and seen the same in August.

I really don't care in the big picture since we need the moisture, but selfishly it screws up my fishing opportunities and I have a feeling the summer will be lots of weather changes and lots of water.

 

[StClone]

We were flying in to Chicago Tuesday night and the air temperature outside at 38,000 feet was -83F. I fly enough to never see it pass -69F. A meteorologist in Wisconsin texted that the Polar Vortex had blopped off and may have been the reason for the extremes.

 

[BigJCy]

More coming Sunday:

 

[ArgentCy]

WVU cancelled the spring game Saturday. Looks like we will and should be coming home Saturday and not Sunday from the in-laws this weekend. Maybe we will see spring by June.

 

[Acylum]

I'm getting pretty ******* tired of near single-digit lows this far into April.