Wow the airport gusted to 54mph. There’s been very little wind imby and I’m only 1.5mi north of the obs site.
Good quality 20min soaker. Lawn and garden definitely needed this.
It wasn’t even initializing with the ongoing convection last evening across central Minnesota. Head scratcher why the algorithms can’t figure that out.
Plenty of cloud cover but no storms/precipitation made it into the metro core overnight. Wonder if the outflow boundary that swung through killed our storm chances.
At least the heat and high dews are done for now. 72/64
Stuff is exploding to my west, looks like a line is trying to get together with the bigger complex to my north. Getting interesting.
Edit: Outflow from the storms to my north just blew through. Strong north wind and quickly plunging temps. Always cool to be outside to experience the sudden change in airmass.
91/70 in Minneapolis.
It got very steamy today but the leftover cloudcover from the overnight MCS delayed warming and we underachieved by several degrees on the days high.
Western MN has a few locations that topped out in the 100-102 range.
The sound of thunder and rain hitting my roof is very welcome this morning. The heavy stuff went south of Minneapolis but we’ll gladly take this rain and hopefully lower temperatures that the slow to depart cloud cover will provide.
Welcome to the board! I spent a frigid few winter days working outside Southdale in the lifetime fitness parking lot, they are planning on putting a high end apartment building there.
Convection debris “saved” us yesterday as we barely topped out at 90 before an outflow boundary knocked us down to the lower 80s.
Low of 70 overnight ensures the heat is off to the races today.
I’m a few blocks east of Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. About the driest spot in the metro.
Got caught up in a nice downpour driving south on 35W through Blaine earlier this afternoon.
0.89” so far in July. It’s crispy out there, and the heat is about to get cranked up. Smoke got pretty bad yesterday afternoon, hopefully the southerly flow pushes it out.
Cool to see another active twin cities poster.