Forget the multiple rounds of heavy April snow. Most, if not all, of the snow-cover will melt in near-70-degree temperatures in just a few days.
The latest springtime snowstorm to batter the Twin Cities ended up dropping about 4 inches of snow at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport by Tuesday morning, April 23, according to observations from the National Weather Service.
That amount held true for most of the metro area, with the heaviest snow -- a band of 6 and 7 inch accumulation -- falling to the south, in the Lakeville and New Prague areas.
The storm threatened to dump up to 9 inches of snow in the metro, a figure that would have made this April the snowiest in Twin Cities recorded history, surpassing a total of 21.8 inches that fell in April 1983, according to the Minnesota Climatology Office.
Including the latest 4 inches of accumulation, the Twin Cities' total snowfall for the season stands at about 67 inches, or about 14 inches above average.
And over the next few days, it's all going to melt away. High temperatures are expected to challenge 60 degrees by Friday and nearly 70 degrees by Saturday, a temperature not seen since mid-October, according to the weather service.
While a chance of flurries exists Tuesday and Wednesday night, no accumulation is expected.
The anticipated warmth comes a week after Saturday's morning low of 21 degrees, which broke the previous record of 26 degrees set in 1888.