Minnesota was looking at a very cool December early in the month before a huge warmup combined with rain and highs in the 40s.
Assistant State Climatologist Pete Boulay says during that time, we lost a lot of the snowpack that had accumulated in early December…
“It’s unfortunate. It turned a really nice snowpack into this hard crusty inch or two. Places in southwest Minnesota had a brown Christmas for sure. The Twin Cities barley eeked one out with an inch or two on the ground. Then of course we got a storm after that that replenished the snowpack.”
Boulay says we’re beginning January with colder than normal temperatures.
(content: courtesy MNN)
