Brian D

Much needed. Hope it pans out.

Very nice, warm day on tap with upper 70's - low 80's. 70's tomorrow , too, as we end astro summer (astro fall starts just after midnight on Sat the 23rd this year 02:50 EDT, 01:50 CDT I believe). Looking forward to more rain potential this weekend. Strong east winds may retard some of that during the day here close to the lake with cooler, dry air, and slightly higher pressures.

Nice wx with very heavy geese movement. Looking at our local paper, and Two Harbors is getting the Ok for a twice yearly goose hunt at our local airport. They get pretty thick there, and interfere with the operations. Golf course is another place, but can't hunt that. Nothing like playing through goose sh*t. LOL Back in my Army days stationed in NJ, our parade field was a big stop for CA geese. The field would be full of crap, and SGT's love to have us do PT in that. A**holes. Grr!

Pretty good call here.

0.35" in the bucket yesterday. 3.12" (3.53" Sept avg) for the month so far. 65-70 temps, too, so was a nice day.

Being a little on the drier side this summer has probably helped for a little push to an earlier color. The northern areas have done a little better with precip, so not as bad as the south end of the region here. Drier conditions tend to to dull the colors a bit, but could be fine up that way.

Will 2nd that. Happening here today. After a little bit of chilly wx here, today feels nice, and rain moving in later.

Another chilly top ten a.m., but not quite as cold as yesterday for some spots. Here in town 42 (tied 7th) with 34 at the arpt. Duluth was 40 (tied 9th), Hibbing 29 (tied 4th), I-Falls 37 (tied 10th). Warming up fast with S winds. Could break 70 here in town, but upper 60's is more likely with a chance of rain tonight. Very nice Fall day. As a side note, I don't use the standard method of ranking that is commonly used (year/temp). Instead I use the dense rank method that ranks by temps. IMHO, it's a better way of ranking for comparison of past temps to now. MRCC gives std, dense, and ordinal methods when you look for rank. Very nice.

Top ten lows this morning. Made it to 42 (tied 10th) here in town with 36 at the arpt. Duluth was 35 (tied 6th). Hibbing was 27 (2nd). Brainerd was 37 (tied 7th). I-Falls was 31 (tied 5th). Chilly morning across the Northland.

1.10" of rain yesterday. Was a cloudy, cool, wet day. 2.67" (3.53" Sept avg) for the month so far, so looking good Now it'll slowly clear off today for our first frost potential away from the lake tomorrow morning.

Geese were moving heavy today. Unlike last year at this time. Although last year, they were moving every few days throughout Aug into Sept. This year had some movement in Aug, and now they are really on the move. Movement seems more typical this year than last. Flocks of migrating tweeties (various small birds) have been moving hard, too. Strong cold fronts get them moving good. Looking forward to more shwrs/stms tomorrow. Need a few more inches in the bucket.

Yeah, and it's still lingers in from CA from time to time even now. Hopefully enough acreage has burned in recent years, that the next few years will be mellow.

As for our summer this year, looks like near avg on the + side. June being the warmer month this summer. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

Prelim data in for Aug, and as expected pretty avg with the warmer W sub, and cooler E sub. 5 & 10 yr trend charts shown respectively.

Had a general 1-2+" of rain up here the other day, so that will help some across NE MN/N WI. New precip data didn't make the latest release as it came in on the 5th-6th.

Yesterday's high temp in the low-mid 60's was just after midnight. Temps slowly cooled into the mid-upper 50's, and pretty much the same today. Very chilly. Furnace kicking in a little more now today as my house slowly cooled off from the weekend heat. Very Oct like wx with cool, cloudy conditions. What a 180 turn. Softening those strong + anoms to start the month. BTW updated my holiday thread with Vet's day, Thanksgiving forecasts.

Thanksgiving Day looks a little wet across the S sub, with another front coming into the W sub.

Veteran's Day this year looks like a front moving through with a little energy possible running ahead or along the boundary. Chilly, blustery wx coming behind this one should kick up some LER/S.

1.46" of rain from yesterday evening into early this morning. Another 0.1-0.2 should be tallied after these showers move out today. One of the better rainfalls around here. June 28 & 29 was the last event that was over an inch. Now the cool, early fall wx moves in with temps hovering around avg to below for the next few days. Unfortunately, not much rain.

Yeah, your anoms in recent years are a bit warmer than the rest of the sub, but the SE sub did have warmer conditions. UHI is always on the table to some degree (even in small towns). It depends on siting. Datasets will start updating by the end of this week into early next week. The start of this month with a holiday weekend will delay things a little. Others update later in the month, so I'll have my chart up in about a week or so with prelim data. The sub was split, so should be near avg overall I believe.

89'd for TH co-op on the shore yesterday, but that temp is marked for today (typical of a.m. stns), and is a record beating 1897 (87). Yesterday it would have been 2nd to 1925 (91). That was the hottest day of the year for the co-op site. Awesome heat wave for 45N in the sub. Looking forward to potential heavy rains tomorrow into Wed. BRING IT! Need lots to make up for the deficit we have. Since May 1st only 7.74" (15.06" avg) so running at ~50%. YTD is 16.05" (21.42" avg) so that's a little better.

Records around my area. Looked at PWS's, and around the S end of the Duluth Harbor, and Superior, WI many 100+ away from the lake shore. This area is close to lake level (600'), and the hills (~1100') to the west have down sloping winds (even if they are light) that produce a mini chinook style heating. Interesting tho was the PWS's in the Duluth downtown, and neighborhoods along the lake shore only made it to low-mid 90's as the airport hit 97, which is about 5 miles inland. Normally it gets hotter like the other areas did, but the lake (including the main harbor) must have helped keep the temps subdued slightly. Exact wind direction is a big factor. West to W/SW tends to up the temps, but more SW runs parallel to the shoreline/ridgeline. Didn't realize it was so darn hot in 76'. Just a kid then, so ya don't pay attention to that stuff. HOT WHEELS was the thing LOL! Currently in the mid-upper 60's at 2:30 am. Feels really nice coming through the window. Main floor of my house was up to 82. Sweatin!

93-96/75-78 (heat index around 105-113) around here, with 80 in the house. Hottest day of year here. Won't see the official co-op temp on the shoreline until tomorrow morning.

Some of you may remember I mentioned a few weeks ago about Labor Day week looking Fallish. This is what I was expecting to see. Highs will be near to or lower than current lows this weekend here in the N sub. Fast switch over.

84 lakeshore, and 88 at the airport here yesterday. Peak heat today. Will see how close we can get to 90 on the shore. 87 is the highest temp so far this summer. I haven't needed to use a window A/C this year, and not going to put it in for this. 77 in the house right now, and expect that to be 80+ later this aftrn. Fan will suffice.