The folks here in Mankato talk almost reverently about the Halloween blizzard of 1991. A multiple-day event, that storm dumped almost 30" of snow in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
We are now experiencing the beginning of a storm that could rival that storm in snowfall when all is said and done. Here's the current National Weather Service map with all the advisories in the country.
Tornadoes and ice and snow! Oh my! This beast is spawning severe storms and tornadoes down in Texas, flooding (or expected to cause flooding) in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois and all types of icy precipitation in the central US. All that color in the middle of the country is because of this one storm. The entire state - the entire state - of Minnesota is under either a winter storm warning or a blizzard warning. The entire states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin and about 75% of the states of Kansas and Iowa are under some sort of wintry weather advisory. This storm is a beast. A beast!
I love it! If it's got to be winter, at least let it snow.
The weather folks are forecasting at least a foot of snow here in south central Minnesota. So far we've gotten just short of three inches of the white stuff here in Mankato. But the snow is coming down heavily and some flakes are the size of quarters. Plus it's forecasted to go on for the next 60 hours.
But like we here in the nort' lands say: as long as there's no place to go, let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.