Clipper System Report- West & Northwestern Wisconsin

Very wintry looking front yard Dec 4th with new landscape shrubs from last summer.

A strong Alberta clipper system hit the Upper Midwest this weekend, with the edge of it effecting Western and Northwest Wisconsin. This system which was unusually strong for a clipper had a thin snow band that stretched from North Dakota though Illinois all the way as far south as Northern Tennessee! The storm left up to half a foot in parts of our the local area, while parts of Minnesota that were in the middle of the band reported well over a foot with a report of 13 inches West of the Twin Cities! In our my brother estimated 6.50" fell in River Falls and the official report had the highest report in the area at 5 inches in Baldwin.
Snowcovered Boxwood bush December 4th

Snow started in Southwest parts of the local area by 4PM, but took awhile to start in other places, it did not start at my location until around 6:30 to 7pm, the air was so dry it wasn't reaching the ground, but when it did it became moderate to heavy. I was looking out the windows where I work it was as quick as one time I looked out I saw nothing, but then the next minute there was moderate snow falling. Me and a gas station worker from the store shoveled the walkway at 11:30pm Friday night and by the time we had the entire thing cleared the side where we started was lightly covered again. Although a lot of shovel was involved, this snow seemed to be the perfect type of snowfall, winds were clam, and the snow was fluffy so if fell gently and was very easy to measure and shovel. I measured 3 inches for a storm total at my location, with a water content of 0.16" making the snowpack of 6.0 inches, which should make local snow-mobilers happy or people planning on coming to the area for snow-fun.


Snowfall reports Saturday

Areas in St Croix County had the highest snowfall accumulation, There 5 inches or more fell, especially in the River Falls area. North of there snow totals began to become less in Polk and Barron and Western Burnett counties with mainly 2-3 inch reports, but really cut off to a inch in or less for totals when I looked in Northeast Burnett and Washburn counties. This snowfall brought a good blanket of snow to southern parts of the area, this means the entire local area is covered in a good cover of snow.