Greetings and welcome!
The big storm that came through yesterday brought mostly rain. After sunset the rain changed over to snow and left us about an inch. The way that the snow was falling in huge goose down sized flakes suggests that places north and west might have changed over sooner, giving them a little more.
Around here the smallest elevation change can make a big difference. My house on Hwy C in Silver Cliff always has more than we do here by Caldron Falls Flowage- 6 miles away, and the folks out on old J, north of C, or toward Lakewood also get more because of elevation. This was one of those storms, though no one got a lot.
When I went to Lakewood and Townsend Saturday the warm couple of days had not opened up lakes, but that ice was clearly in distress. We are going to want a lot more cold weather before it is time to venture out onto the ice.
There are no storms on the 16 day GFS that would give us any hope at all. There is a bigger storm showing up for Christmas Eve, but with the low going over Minnesota we would be a couple of hundred miles into the rain side of it.
This is why I hate El Nino years.
Have a good week and thank you for visiting!
RJB