2010 Year in review from the National Weather Service in Chanhassen

WITH BLIZZARD CONDITIONS IN THE DAKOTAS AND NEARING WESTERN MN...TO TORNADO WARNINGS IN AL AND MS...AND A HARD FREEZE IN THE SOUTHERN AZ DESERT...IT WOULD SEEM 2011 IS IN LIKE A LION. AND 2010 WAS CERTAINLY A LION IN WEATHER ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST...BEING A STATISTICALLY IMPRESSIVE AND MAJOR IMPACTING YEAR. ANY METEOROLOGIST OR WEATHER ENTHUSIAST SHOULD TAKE JUST A MINUTE THIS NEW YEARS TO REFLECT ON THE NUMBERS AND MAGNITUDES OF THE EVENTS...THE ANOMALOUS NATURE OF PARAMETERS...AND THE RECORDS THAT WERE SHATTERED. FROM A SNOWLESS MARCH AND APRIL IN THE WARMEST SPRING ON RECORD...TO A RECORD SEVERE WEATHER SEASON THAT WAS DECEIVINGLY SLOW TO START BUT WOULD HOLD THE LARGEST TORNADO OUTBREAK IN MN RECORDED HISTORY...TO A SUMMER THAT WAS WARMER AND MOIST THAN MOST PROVIDING TWO INCH PWATS NINE TIMES AT MPX...TO A SEPTEMBER DELUGE AND SUBSEQUENT RIVER FLOOD...FOLLOWED BY A LOW PRESSURE BOMB BREAKING MN PRESSURE RECORDS...TO THE INCREDIBLE START OF THIS WINTER SEASON WHERE WINTER STORMS HAVE BEEN ON A CONVEYOR BELT INTO THE AREA...TO HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN ON DEC 30TH AND SLEET/HAIL/GRAUPEL AND THUNDER ON NEW YEARS EVE...2010 GAVE US EVENTS THAT WERE SOME OF THE MOST INTRIGUING AND IMPACTING IN THE NATION. ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS THIS MADE MANY OF THE LONG TIME FORECASTING VETERANS HERE AT WFO MPX COMMENT THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE...AND WE MAY NOT AGAIN. SO WHAT A WEATHER YEAR 2010 WAS.