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They’re blocking the sun here, but we should clear back out soon. Back to 62° after hitting 68°.

Stupid clouds.

At least we're solidly into low sun angle season. ET losses are pretty minimal right now with the cooler than average temps.

lol JLC is wound up today. Hard to argue with much of what he is saying.

December 22nd though it feels like I’m a touch early. I’ll stick with it. .

Tis the season

Got a long weekend in back home from Texas, and my god it was beautiful weather. If that's boredom, give me boredom every day for all of Oct and most of Novie.

It’s kind of crazy how it won’t mix out. Still upper 50s at 1500ft and upper 40s down in Stowe Village PWS spots. MVL holding at 48F too. Even some spot 60F above 1,200ft.

Kinda cool to see the CRV still wedged after noon despite sunshine.

41 with some very light le. Feels like the October I know but it's not gonna last, quick warmup follows.

66.0°

Too bad climo brings the temps down. Upper 50’s will still be tolerable though. Maybe low 60’s in full sun. .

MN HS Football playoffs start tomorrow with rain in the forecast. Should make for an interesting evening of games. THHS ended with a 6-2 record. They play a weak team to start the 1st round. Will see how far they get this year.

any suggestions on where the color is currently worth going for currently? I may still venture that way if it is worthwhile.

October 26 2010: The lowest pressure on record for Minnesota occurs in the town of Bigfork, with a reading of 28.21 inches of mercury (955.30 mb). Very strong winds were widespread throughout the state, with peak gusts of 65 mph recorded at both Georgeville (Stearns County) and Mehurin Township (Lac Qui Parle County). 1996: A severe weather outbreak combined with a blizzard occurred across the upper Midwest. Intense low pressure tracking into Minnesota produced blizzard conditions over portions of South Dakota, while further east in Minnesota, unseasonably mild temperatures developed. Temperatures climbed to near 70, with dew points in the 50s. 1 to 1 3/4 inch hail and strong winds were reported in Lac Qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Chippewa, and Swift Counties. These storms produced 12 tornadoes; the strongest of which received F2 ratings. Southwest of Alexandria in Douglas County, an F2 tornado with a 9 mile track destroyed several homes. One woman sustained broken bones and internal injuries when a portion of her house, with her inside, was launched 200 feet onto the interstate. This tornado also pushed over a 500 pound fuel tank. Tornadoes also touched down in Swift, Kandiyohi, Pope, Stearns, and Isanti Counties. For Monday, October 26, 2026 1859 - New York City had their earliest substantial snow of record as four inches blanketed the city. (David Ludlum) 1919 - The temperature at Bismarck, ND, plunged to ten degrees below zero, the earliest subzero reading of record for the city, and a record for the month of October. (The Weather Channel) 1926 - Barrow, AK, received a record fifteen inches of snow, and also established a 24 hour precipitation record of 1.00 inch which lasted until the 21st of July in 1987. (The Weather Channel) 1962 - A storm brought five to six inches of snow to Vermont and New Hampshire, with up to ten inches reported in the mountains. (The Weather Channel) 1983 - A heat wave was in progress over the Northern Rockies, with record highs of 81 degrees at Sheridan WY and Billings MT.(Sandra and TI Richard Sanders - 1987) 1987 - Five cities in south central Texas reported record high temperatures for the date, including Corpus Christi and Del Rio with readings of 93 degrees. Laredo TX was the hot spot in the nation with a high of 98 degrees. Thunderstorms moving over the Lower Mississsippi Valley deluged Lake Charles LA with 2.70 inches of rain in one hour resulting in severe local flooding. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms moving out of northern Texas spawned five tornadoes in Louisiana during the morning hours. The thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jennings LA, and the driver of a vehicle was killed by a falling tree near Coushatta LA. Snow squalls in the Lower Great Lakes Region produced heavy snow in western New York State, with 12 inches reported at Colden. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Unseasonably warm weather continued in the north central U.S. Afternoon highs of 78 degrees at Alpena MI, 75 degrees at Duluth MN, 79 degrees at Fargo ND, 77 degrees at International Falls MN, 76 degrees at Marquette MI, 75 degrees at Sault Ste Marie MI, and 80 degrees at Saint Cloud MN, were all the warmest of record for so late in the season. Morning lows of 63 degrees at Concordia KS and Omaha NE were the warmest of record for the date. (The National Weather Summary) Observances: 26 Mon National Pumpkin Day 26 Mon National Day of the Deployed 26 Mon Accession Day 26 Mon National Chicken Fried Steak Day 26 Mon National Financial Crime Fighter Day 26 Mon National Microneedling Day 26 Mon National Mincemeat Day 26 Mon National Mule Day 26 Mon National Tennessee Day 26 Mon National Transgender Children Day 26 Mon Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night

37.9 in N Smithtown. Chilly nights and the best run of daytimes of the decade.

So I'd be careful with the QBO in correlations. This actually happened first back in - I think ...- it was 2016, where the QBO abruptly and mysteriously halted ( in the relative sense... It even reversed for a time, mid cycle - something that had never been seen at that magnitude, if ever. It prompted me to check and sure enough, there's been publication as to the QBO as ( possibly ...) now also being affected by CC. Yes, even this is not unaffected. The study is “The disappearing quasi-biennial oscillation under sustained global warming,” by Fuhai Luo and colleagues, published in Nature Communications. Jan 29 earlier this year. It indeed describes the QBO as experiencing unusual disruptions in recent years. The idea here is that if it is doing this sort of "break down" ... that should enter the question as to how physically it is coupled with the total system - if so ... naturally and quite arithmetically the correlation goes with it. Just sayn'

62/22 yesterday, only the 9th "forty" in 29 Octobers, and the coldest of the bunch. The others mostly had highs in the 70s. And the first clouds in 4 days this morning (but nothing falling from them). Stick season here, though the 2 nearby oaks and some understory beech have some brown hangers-on.

Been a balmy 75-80 every day I've been down in Tennessee visiting the baby! Down in the 40s at night though.

Still a disconnect between NOAA and the Australian BOM on the official weekly RONI number…..not huge (little over 0.3) but still a difference none the less….CPC has it at +2.5C and the BOM has it at +2.8C Here’s the traditional ONI anomaly, the absolute temperature remains over 30C, which is also record-breaking:

Been cold enough for me to have soups in the rotation 2x's a week. And the amount of grilled ham/cheese and dill pickle toasties are delightful.

Sports can be funny sometimes but at this point as a Minnesota fan you have the Vikings at 6-0 and in first place, the Timberwolves at 3-0 and in first place the Wild are in first place and even the Gophers football team is beating ranked teams and 5-2 overall. Setting up to be a craptacular collapseapalooza postseason. Not to mention the snowless winter and 80 degree christmas coming.