Brian D

These weather patterns the past few years remind me of the 80's (when I was a young man). Jet going wild man (among other things LOL)

Picked up an 1" of rain yesterday. Today it's chilly with a temp in the upper 50's right now, with "popcorn" showers. Have a Fall looking sky on the first full day of astro Summer.

My prayers to all of the folks down there dealing with this. Scary stuff man!

60 and overcast with 0.24" of rain so far. Another batch moving in soon. Looks like some nasty NW winds hitting the North Shore tonight with gusts up to 50 mph possible.

I did a good job with this forecast, now lets see how July 4 weekend pans out.

More like a day of Spring/Fall weather. Chilly for this time in June with upper 50's - 60's, and upper 30's - 40's in the a.m. Definitely a cool down coming next week.

Thunderstorms last night rolled through between here and Duluth. Nice lightning show, nothing too serious. More noise from folks setting off high power fireworks. Neighbors down the way must buy large amounts. They set them off all summer. The kind they have are illegal here, so blow a couple, then quit so the cops can't catch them in the act. Almost every night now they will be going off. And other folks in the neighborhood sometimes get those, too, so it gets real noisy after sunset close to the 4th.

I guess in the end, folks just learned to deal with heat/cold/weather issues in the past the best way they could. If it was too much, they moved, but economics played big so that wasn't always an option. Now we have all these modern conveniences that allow us to live just about anywhere. Those that seasonally migrate every year are just playing the "Goldilocks" game. Trying to get the best of both worlds.

Wow, Vegas sure is a hot, nasty place in June sometimes. Without A/C in the early years, that had to be absolutely miserable.

Superior, WI fire did the same thing. Black smoke and fireballs like that. Rough stuff man.

Some Las Vegas data. Stretches above 110. I used threadex, and there was data for a downtown station from 1900 to 1956. The two 1930's came from that station. 1940-06-12 to 1940-06-20 9 Max 116 1957-06-24 to 1957-06-27 4 Max 113 1961-06-22 to 1961-06-26 5 Max 113 1977-06-27 to 1977-06-30 4 Max 114 1979-06-26 to 1979-06-29 4 Max 112 1994-06-26 to 1994-06-30 5 Max 115 2017-06-18 to 2017-06-25 8 Max 117 1932-06-22 to 1932-06-28 7 Max 113 1933-06-12 to 1933-06-15 4 Max 114

It's a stretch I know, but interesting that some would think that

The last couple years or so has seen a lot of these types of fires around the world. Infrastructure getting old? Some have posited the increase in cosmic rays during solar min destabilizes some chemical concoctions. But human error is the usual suspect. Dangerous stuff. Superior WI, just 25 miles S of me, had an incident a few years ago at its refinery.

Something possibly brewing for Father's Day. Few days to go.

It was 55/48 yesterday, and now we have low 80's in town with breezy west winds that are gusting up to 30 mph. Chance of stms tomorrow with a trough moving through, highs around 80 again.

Mid 50's and thunder with fog. Last day of colder temps here in town. Looks like upper 70's - lower 80's on tap for the next few days.

Another day near the lake with 65-70 temps. Foggy skies starting to clear up a little. Storms last night put on a good cloud to cloud lightning show. About 0.45" of rain fell.

I have seen metro only heat advisories for the past few days down there. Sucks to be you. Ish!!

The weather info from those instruments is meant for airport ops, not climate. And besides, almost the entire record is UHI contaminated, anyway. I've seen small town readings higher like airports because of infrastructure, compared to the truly rural sites. NOAA has invested in the US Climate Reference Network to get a better handle on this issue. Don't know how that is going at the moment, but even they know through studies in recent years how much infrastructure contaminates temperatures. Anthony Watts really brought that to light with his study a decade ago, and NOAA acknowledged his work, and confirmed it. NOAA even did a study on site placement near and away from structures, and found significance there. But no matter what, a cooling/warming signal will always emerge from that noise. Just takes a while.

Lake Superior is calling you. It's actually feels chilly here with the stiff Lake wind. Around 65-70 here in town.

Here's the station thread, plus my analysis of the max/high min records I did a while back. It's up to date till May 2021. Station Thread for La Crosse Area, WI Name Period in Thread 1 LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AP 02/1986 to 12/2020 2 LA CROSSE WSO 10/1985 to 01/1986 3 LA CROSSE MUNICIPAL AP 01/1951 to 09/1985 4 LA CROSSE 03/1903 to 12/1950 5 LA CROSSE (supplied by NWS) 02/1903 to 02/1903 6 LA CROSSE 11/1896 to 01/1903 7 LA CROSSE (supplied by NWS) 10/1872 to 10/1896

I think LaCrosse was in the valley in the past, too, probably just not in the middle of the river. Just across from the airport is the La Cresent dam, and they have a 7 day avg of 73.4, and Trempealeau dam up the valley has 74.5, so I don't know what say except that the airport is just running warm.

I looked at Duluth, and LaCrosse. They have NWS records and Arpt records that are in close proximity to each other. Here's what the difference is in the first 7 days avg. Duluth Arpt: 71.0 Duluth NWS: 68.7 LaCrosse Arpt: 78.6 Lacrosse WFO: 73.5 I also looked at Mpls Arpt, and Chanhassen WFO. They are further apart, and the NWS office is in the burbs W of the Arpt. Mpls Arpt: 80.3 Chanhassen WFO: 76.5 Edit: Looked at Madison Arpt, and UW of Madison. They are a little further apart, as well. Madison Arpt: 74.4 UW of Madison: 71.8 Airports seem to be running a little hotter than other sites.

Some new changes I'd like to see is... Snow/ Winter stm W Ice/ Ice stm W Wind chill/ Svr wind chill W Heat/Svr heat W Travel alert and warning for the more dangerous conditions. Basically just change from advisory to warning for some, drop others, and tweek triggers. Advisory is a softball term for much of what is really just ordinary weather for a region. Besides, travel alerts are really just shifting from the advisories to that anyway, if they would do that again. And when a warning is issued, people will really take notice. Things getting serious.

I took the survey for this, and I'm ok with no advisories. People are pretty used to the weather for their area. 2-3 of snow is just normal around here, but not down south. Use the word "Warning" to get their attention to something very impactful for the region, like dense fog, ice/ice storm, wind/high wind, small craft/gale/storm, winter storm, frost/freeze, flood/flash flood. If advisories are gone, then tweek the triggers for warning down slightly, if necessary. The one advisory or alert I would like to see used is the travel one. Alerting those who are on the road or going to be on the road to road conditions is a good idea. So travel alerts are ok in my book.