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Marine Weather and Tides Lake City, MN Version 3.4

What's New / NOTES 10/6/2018 Colors of tide XTide graphs changed to emphasize that they were upgraded. See next note. Comments welcome. 10/4/2018 I have fixed XTide and updated the harmonic files. There were some name changes so you might have to click EDIT to find the new station name.

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Sunrise 7:00AM

Sunset 5:46PM

Wednesday February 20, 2019 3:17 PM CST (21:17 UTC)

Moonrise 7:16PM

Moonset 7:55AM

Illumination 98%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Lake City, MN

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Area Discussion for - Twin Cities, MN

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Fxus63 kmpx 201818 afdmpx area forecast discussion national weather service twin cities chanhassen mn 1218 pm cst Wed feb 20 2019 Short term (today through Thursday) issued at 330 am cst Wed feb 20 2019 latest water vapor satellite imagery showing upper trough lifting northeast across the mississippi river valley. A couple of vorticity maxima lifting through the area. One moving into southeast south dakota which has enhanced snowfall rates to 2 inches an hour near sioux falls area. The other is lifting through the missouri area. Models continue to trend strong forcing lifting northeast across the entire CWA today. We still should see a widespread 6 to 10 inch accumulation across the area. Snowfall rates will likely continue in the 1 to 2 inch an hour range through the morning as the trough lifts northeast. Expect decent dendrites as well with slr's averaging around 15-17:1 during the peak of the event. Headlines were updated to include the winter storm warning for the entire cwa. The upper trough will lift to the northeast CWA by late afternoon. Could still see some light accumulation there into the early evening so expiration times were left as is for now. Clouds should break some to the west overnight with high pressure ridge building across for Thursday. Temperatures are expected to remain in the teens to the west and lower to mid 20s to the east Thursday. Long term (Thursday night through Tuesday) issued at 351 am cst Wed feb 20 2019 a period of tranquil weather will occur Thursday into early Friday while the beginnings of the next winter storm will be taking shape over the southwestern u.S. The main wave won't be impacting the area until later Saturday. However, there's another wave expected to ripple northeast in the southwest flow Friday and Friday night. This round will impact primarily western and central mn as isentropic lift begins to increase and the snow focuses along a stationary front from the western high plains up through northeastern mn. There could be a few inches with this round before the wave moves off and snow dissipates late Friday night into early Saturday. Dry mid level air could allow for patchy freezing drizzle during this period, but the more likely scenario is a cessation of precipitation. The potent longwave trough over the desert southwest will eventually kick out across the southern rockies and reach the central plains Saturday, rapidly becoming negatively tilted as it does so. This is a great precursor for significant deepening of the surface low and this one will be no different. Various guidance continues to show a near bomb cyclone as it tracks across the midwest. There are several things to watch with this one. First, the track is still uncertain and models continue shifting around with each run. The overnight runs have shifted a tad further south, including the eps mean. GEFS remains a bullish northern solution, impacting southwest to east central mn and northern wi hardest. Deterministic track guidance is pretty consistent taking the low across northern mo into southeastern wi. Usually this is a bit south of the ideal track for heavy snow locally and the forecast overnight has trended in that direction. It should be noted that highly negatively- tilted systems and strong cyclones tend to

migrate northward as time closes in. Second, the amount of moisture with this system will be quite high and moisture advection is expected to be impressive given the wind field. Therefore, we may have to contend with mixed precip or rain across portions of the area depending how far north the system tracks. And third, we should have wind and blowing snow issues to contend with given the deepening trend of the cyclone. Blizzard conditions are probable in some sections of the cwa. Between the system today and the one this weekend which itself could bring a foot or more, we may crush the february record by 10 to 15 inches in some areas by early next week. There are signs of another system impacting the region next week, but consistency at that range is poor. What is certain is much below normal temperatures will continue into early march. Aviation (for the 18z tafs through 18z Thursday afternoon) issued at 1217 pm cst Wed feb 20 2019 snow has begun to taper off across southern minnesota with visibilities improving to ifr, but moderate to heavy snowfall with lifr visibilities is still expected to continue through mid- afternoon across central minnesota and west-central wisconsin. Snowfall will continue to diminish through the afternoon, and is expected to end by mid- afternoon at mkt rwf and by evening at all other terminals. Ceilings will remain fairly through tonight, with mainly low-end MVFR expected but can't rule out a few instances of ifr. Ceilings may break out overnight at rwf mkt, but otherwise expect them to hold through the period. Easterly southeasterly winds become westerly as the snow ends, with speeds generally at or below 10 kts. Kmsp... The heaviest snowfall has ended, with lighter snowfall and borderline lifr ifr visibilities expected through mid-afternoon. Light snowfall with ifr visibilities will continue through afternoon, with snowfall most likely ending by 6 pm. Can't totally rule out MVFR ceilings clearing out overnight, but believe they will hold until tomorrow afternoon. Outlook for kmsp thu night... MVFR CIGS possible. Wind wsw 5 kts. Fri... MVFR cigs. -sn ifr likely late. Wind SE 5-10 kts. Sat... Afternoon sn ifr likely. Wind NE 5 kts becoming nw 10-20kts. Mpx watches warnings advisories Wi... Winter storm warning until 9 pm cst this evening for wiz014- 023>026-028. Winter storm warning until midnight cst tonight for wiz015-016- 027. Mn... Winter storm warning until 6 pm cst this evening for mnz041-042- 047>049-054>060-064>070-073>078-082>085-091>093. Winter storm warning until 9 pm cst this evening for mnz043>045- 050>053-061>063. Short term... Dwe long term... Borghoff aviation... Eta

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Red Wing - Red Wing Regional Airport, WI	16 mi	23 min	SE 7	1.00 mi	Light Snow	28°F	24°F	86%	1001.7 hPa

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Wind Forecast for Twin Cities, MN (16,3,4,5)

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Ground Weather Radar Station La Crosse, WI

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