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Mystique of tournament snow storms

Posted at 8:07 AM on March 14, 2008 by Craig Edwards


Weather forecasters often associated basketball March Madness with meteorological madness of predicting sloppy snow storms. The good people at the Minnesota State Climatologist's office, along with some detailed research by meteorologist Ron Trenda have posted the facts on historical findings of March snow storms.

In short, the record supports a much better chance of reaching 50 degrees during the boy's high school basketball tournament than having a snowfall of four inches or more.

Mystique of boy's basketball tournament snow

Rather quiet weekend weather is expected to be replaced by a sloppy mix of precipitation in southern Minnesota on Monday.
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