Brian D

I have worked up the rankings for June and July. August I'll post in a few days to let data submissions make it into the system. There are a few stations out there that still submit monthly reports instead of daily internet reports. The dense ranking method (data comes from MRCC cli-mate tool) ranks by each unique temp as the place holder, and the years associated with them. For June and July, the average number of monthly temps is around 80 for max, and 70 for high min (more ties). So you can, by the aforementioned numbers, see how far from average each station was during the month. For those lower ranked stations, I noted if they were top 20 on the cool side to highlight their significance. June was definitely a warm one.

Thought I'd post Labor Day's extremes for max temp. Think we're safe this year. BTW, my forecast for the upcoming weekend that I posted in the "Holiday Forecast" thread looks to be pretty close based on 12z GFS today.

Found the answer. Have to delete old ones. Reaching limit.

What's up with the big decrease in file attachment sizes? Went from well over 1M to 100kb. Not cool.

1.62" of rain yesterday. Total for the month is 2.45", which is an inch below normal. Greenwood fire is 14% contained now at 26,000 acres. Fire slowed quite a bit the last couple days with the cool, moist weather. Heavier rains yesterday were a big help. But today, dry, and breezy west winds could flame up portions of the fire.

Each IR sat frame shows wagons circling ever tighter. BOOM, there it is!!

I posted on page 23 a map of my track for this. I think Marsh Island get the official call. We shall see tomorrow. Poor folks down there. Last year was rough, too.

Radar is lit up this evening. Come on RAIN!! Have had a good drenching so far, but need more. Heavy weather in S MN and to the SW of there. Maybe some tornadoes.

Don't remember, but it was a long while back.

Hurricane Opal many years ago was heading north in the gulf towards Pensacola as Cat 1, and strengthen to Cat 5 overnight. It didn't stay at that level long, but scared the hell out many down there. Tiny storm, too. Landed Cat 2 or 3, don't remember.

What is the tide forecast? High/low/in between? Anyone?

My thoughts here. Ridge tomorrow a.m. stands tough in SE and as it nears shore, a little land friction will move this thing a little west. With it becoming a large, very strong system, it will be influenced easier by these. And it's supposed to slow some coming in, I do believe, so that, too, will make it easier to be influenced by said factors. Either way, a very bad day for LA coming up tomorrow

The next 24hrs shows the best opportunity in weeks for heavier rains. Come on n bring it!!

Had a little yesterday. Most of the rain stayed just west of the Arrowhead, but today looks much better for something significant.

Extensive damage reported around Marble Rock, IA from yesterday evenings tornado.

Tornado watch for east central MN into NW WI until 4pm. West central MN seeing heavy weather with winds up to 70 and 1.25" hail. Radar rotation just WNW of St. Cloud invoked a tornado warning. Looks like a squirrely few hours coming up just south of me.

A cool, overcast day today with low 60's and about 0.25" of rain. Need much more than that. Even still, should help greatly with the Greenwood fire.

Veteran's Day looks to be cool but nice for most with weather in the south, and a front approaching from the west.

Halloween looks to be wet for some, while cold and blustery for others.

My forecast for Columbus Day calls for inclement weather affecting parts of the region.

This day many may not be aware of, but it's National Clean-up Day. This year it's on the Saturday, Sept 18. I'm expecting wet weather to move into our region that day.

My guesstimate for the Fall outlook is something like this, so we shall see if it ends close or a bust. Did ok with the summer outlook which I put in the summer thread.

Came close.

Good chance of rain moving in today and for the weekend. Should greatly help firefighting efforts concerning the Greenwood fire, now at 26,000 acres. My other son lives in Silver Bay, and he had heavy smoke and ash falling last night. Really bad stuff. Smoke rolled in here around 5 am for a little while, but east winds cleared things out.

The Greenwood wildfire north of me expanded from 10,000 to 19,500 acres overnight. North Shore got smoked out really bad last night too. Woke up at 0 dark 30 to close window. Just nasty. We had some rain this morning (around 0.1") in town, but very little made its way up north. Chance for more this aftrn/eve, but any lightning strikes could start more fires. There is currently a 1500 acre fire going in the BWCA, with a couple other small ones.