Brian D

Early data in showing an avg April. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

Temps hit mid-upper 80's along the shore with W winds today. Awesome summer day.

Going to be another hot one away from the Lake today. Max temps across MN will running +15-20. Almost the whole state again. Similar to yesterday.

Improved drought status from all the recent precip we've had up my way. We'll see if we can at least maintain that in the coming weeks. Doesn't look like much precip in the forecast/models for my area. I'm expecting better potential late May into June for some heavier stuff.

~ 1/2" of rain so far around the TH area, with close to an 1" around the DLH area. Still raining pretty good. Just a blah, wet day, but some rather pleasant, seasonably warm conditions on tap for the 1st week of May.

An OK forecast here. I do have a front, but energy from the SW heads NE ahead of the CAN front, which I indicate, but was not sure if it would move up ahead or along the boundary or not. Obviously that will be the case, bringing more rain/stms into our sub than a simple frontal boundary from CAN.

0.96" from the shwrs/stms yesterday into this morning. Nothing svr imby, but did get some pea hail with the initial round of stms. Looks like a 1-2"+ with isolated 3"+ of rain around N MN. That was really needed. Should knock back the drought conditions.

Green grass is starting to show, and bird song is rampant. Seasonal wx so far this week, except a little warmer back on Wed away from the Lake in the low 60's. Looks like Mon could be on the warmer side with thunder. Look forward to the warmer wx next month, especially later in May for my area. The Lake keeps things a little cool still, but warmer than now.

MRCC, and all RCC sites back online yesterday aftrn.

0.25" of precip this morning. A little snow was mixed in (around 0.1" on the grass). Wet, chilly morning.

Happy Easter to everyone that celebrates. Have a good day!

Think I did pretty decent for these 2 days. The LP in the S on Easter is going to make a NNE track, which was a little different than what I was expecting. Then another LP moves in on Earth Day.

Labor Day looks pretty decent with a CAN LP moving into the W sub. Could be a stn bdry down along the OHRV, so that will allow for some wet wx down that way. It could be further S, tho. The weekend overall looks pretty decent.

On Senior Citizen Day, Aug 21st, expecting a front to sag S through the sub kicking up shwrs/stms. Should be pretty warm. Possible some energy in the W may sneak across as the front moves into the sub.

On Friendship Day on Aug 3rd, it looks like a front moving through kicking up shwrs/stms with HP sliding in for some decent wx.

Says there was flooding below with 1-2 meters of snow in the mountains in 2 days (Alps I believe). They can have it. A little snow in April is fine, but that's overboard.

0.61" yesterday with a little bit of hail up to pea size. That's 2 hail events imby this year already (1st one had up to dime sized). Believe it or not I barely get 1 event in a year here in town. Usually it stays just N along the ridges.

MRCC, and all RCC sites I think, are down as contract for funding has not been renewed as of yet. Email from MRCC to me. Hello again, We’ve had some recent developments concerning the MRCC website, including the cli-MATE self-service data portal. It is looking likely that our funding will lapse starting April 17. At that time, our website and all of our hosted products on the website will be unavailable. This is a change in what we previously communicated, and this was a very difficult decision. The base RCC contract is what funded all aspects of the website from IT server usage, data storage, and personnel support. If our funding is restored, our website and hosted products will come back online as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we do not have a timeline on this decision. We recognize that our absence will affect you. One option for obtaining climate data and services would be to inquire with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) at https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact. And my response.... GRRR! $%&#$^%#@!! Well, I hope funding is restored. I use your cli-MATE nearly everyday for my wx data. Ease of use, and a treasure trove of data from active, as well as non-active stations. If you disappear permanently, I'll be pissed. Sorry for the rough language, but that's how I feel about this situation. Their response.. Brian, I share your sentiment. This is awful for all of us. Contact your representatives.

MRCC is down due to lack of funding. Hope it comes back soon.

I'm going with a C-/D+ for my area. Lack of snow, but more colder wx, especially the 2nd half. Warmer wx mixed in helped keep the heat bill at reasonable levels. I've looked ahead to next winter, and we just might have a pretty decent one with snow/bitter cold showing up quite a bit. We are due for a pretty intense winter season, and this one could be just that for 25/26. But lets enjoy our warmer months first.

EHH! We need variety!

SE trend n another chuckle out of ALEK.

Pretty much a fail with precip yesterday. Some came through last night giving me 0.20", and some showers around today. Hopefully will see a better round at the end of the week.

Showers around the area this morning. Much needed precip through tomorrow. Might see some flakes mixing in late tomorrow as system exits.

The precip trend for the 2nd half of April looks decent for MN. Hope that works out. Precip is a fickle beast.