Brian D

Looks like some precip chances moving through here starting Thurs, but this time of year, the drier air off the Lake likes to eat precip. Unless there is a strong W or S flow, or during the overnight when the inland, and Lake air balance out some.

See this quite a bit in May, and June. Cooler by the Lake. Breezy NE winds will keep temps in the 50's, while away from the Lake will be much more pleasant. Temps this morning running in the upper 20's-mid 30's. Actually at freeze levels at a few sites under the frost advisory this morning.

Very nice day with most of the smoke gone, but temps only peaking around 60 today. Frost advisory out again across NE MN into N WI. A chilly night on tap.

Well, I went through the data for snow season rank. Seems a bit late, but we can still get overnight snows around here in the N most part of the sub into May. From my sig totals below I'm ranking from least snowiest as it was a lean snow year. TH 27.7" ranks 9th(tied) least snowiest since 1894 with sporadic missing years. TH 7NW 56.6" ranks 4th least snowiest since 1998. 25+ years of co-op service from the same observer at this site (home). That's awesome! High school science teacher I believe. Duluth arpt 38.7" ranks 2nd least snowiest (behind 1980/81 36.5") since 1948. Earlier data is from downtown Duluth (near the Lake), which has a much lower avg snow season from 1885-1940, so can't be used for comparison. Bayfield 60.7" ranks 20th least snowiest with data sparse from 1897-1912, then since 1938 with sporadic missing years. Ironwood 66.3" ranks 4th least snowiest since 1901 with sporadic missing years.

Hit 80 here in town, and the smoke is down to the surface. Can smell it. Light haze. Probably be a little warmer without it.

Smoke has filled the sky. Nasty! If any aurora come out tonight, going to be tough to see.

I fell asleep, so didn't check later in the night. Great to see they came out in an awesome display again. Hopefully tonight, another round will be in the offing.

Talk of a possible second decent hit from CME's tonight. Will be interesting to see if we get a decent showing of the aurora. Last night after sunset was very weak. Just a greenish glow in the N. Also, we have another Frost advisory for tomorrow am across NE MN as temps will dip to the low-mid 30's away from the Lake.

Yeah, smoke is on the doorstep, coming behind front, and will be around through tomorrow it looks like. Nice Mother's Day tho. Happy Mother's Day to any Mom's on here.

Kp levels are down to 7 which is G4. Aurora shouldn't be as strong tonight unless there's an uptick to 8 or 9 again (G5). I'll be able see them more N now. Skies are very clear as the Sun has just set. Probably the standard green waves, but we shall see, as there were still some weaker waves yet to hit.

That would be the Oct 2003 event that was as strong as this. During the Carrington event, they were seen down on the Caribbean Islands, if I'm not mistaken.

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06z GFs showing what I'm expecting for Memorial day. We'll see how that goes.

Front a little more aggressive coming down from CA. System will run through S sub along the boundary. So I was more aggressive with the system moving a little more N. Not too bad of a call here. There will be some showers/stms moving through our sub.

Frost advisory for inland NE MN this morning. Got down to 30-35. Very nice day on tap with mild temps ahead of the next front pushing through this weekend. MN fishing opener today, so fishing wx looks great! Temps running upper 60's-low 70's with 70's tomorrow. Cooler by the Lake as usual. Kp index still strong, with aurora too. Hopefully it will last into tonight for another great show.

It's possible that the stronger band may have been more S of me. Usually I have the stronger bands up here on regular events that are brighter than this one tonight. Currently, as of 10:45, they are pretty faint now. Love the multi-color mix.

That's what they look like up here in TH, too. The entire sky, except an area to the S of me is full of green, reddish, pinkish, purplish mix. But they are softer in intensity than the pics above. Tried my digital camera, but they didn't turn out that great. I tried!

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Still got some stms in the area, so currently iffy to start until they move off. Another 1/2 -1 hr before dark enough to see anything.

Game on.

Temps chilly this morning with 28 at the TH arpt, and 32 in town. Frost warnings this morning here, with freeze warnings over N WI. NWS DLH just started issuing these statements up here on May 7, as growing season starts.

Grid instability is a possibility with this event. I've seen aurora cover 2/3 of the sky around here when I was younger, and different colors from green, red, and even purple. The lights stayed on then, but you never know. They're just giving estimates on strength of hits, and some have fizzled, and others were a total surprise. If you start having higher end X-flares with halo CME's that start combining, then we are in big trouble. Start brushing up on your Mad Max movies.

Yeah, it looks like some of the first CME's are going to combine as they hit us, with more behind allowing for an extended event with auroras this weekend. Forecast looks decent, so should be clear enough around here tonight. Looks like I might have to pull an all-nighter. I don't have a smartphone, but I do have a digital camera, so will try and get some pics. I think it has video, too, but never have used that function. Might try that, too.

Mid 40's, and raining this morning. Line of rain moved in from the S, training in from the SE. Looks like a wet one through tonight. Update: rain moved N, and looks like stms popping to my S. Should see more action later today. Would be nice to have some thunder.

Prelim data in for April, and we have another warmer month in the books this year. April's sure have struggled to be on the warmer side in recent years for the sub as whole. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.