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43 and moderate rain. Picked up about an inch overnight. At least another inch today. Loving the moisture.

Chilly morning but warmed up nicely to 59 this afternoon. Glorious rain has moved in this evening. Wet day working ahead of me tomorrow. I’ll take it, we need the moisture. 

0.17” rain yesterday. 

After yesterday the average monthly temperature is now warmer in Paducah.

7 minutes ago, dewydews said:

Just as crazy, if not crazier is that Minneapolis has been warmer than Paducah this month. No idea what is happening to our climate, but it isn't good, that's for sure.

65.3 v 64.6 remarkable. We currently have roughly the same monthly average temperatures as middle Tennessee. Paducah will be in the 80s and Minneapolis the 60s next week though. 
 

High of 53 today with scattered wind driven light rain. Drove to Des Moines this afternoon. Wicked 40mph crosswind the whole drive. 

24 minutes ago, cyclone77 said:

High was 95 here, MLI a new record with 93, and DVN hit 94.  

Picked up a quick 0.05" as dry line cells pushed through.

EDIT:  Dewpoint at DVN has fallen back to 43 after hitting 70 earlier.  Potent dryline.

We dropped from 66 to 46 in 25min, not quite as impressive as you.

Damn we are getting a dust storm here. Wasn’t expecting this. 

Managed to get a few rumbles of thunder and 0.05” of rain. Can’t even call it garden variety. Big let down.

Bout to get rocked here. Southern metro watch out. Tor warned storm entering the I-35 corridor 

Only managed 1 day at or above 90 in the Twin Cities during this stretch. 

Miss on round one. Guidance nailed the hard turn to the north as the decaying line approached the metro.

Ready to get missed twice today. 

High of 87 today. There are now 3 large fires burning out of control in northern Minnesota.

Super weird seeing photos of large wildfires before leaf out has taken place. 

6 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

Yes thats why Im a suburbs person. Sounds like you plan to stay in MN instead of returning to IL, which is cool. I LOVE sugar maples!

Nope. I’m a lifer here, wife is from Plymouth MN. If I had my way we’d move to Duluth or north, but that is not a battle i’m winning until the kids are grown. 

5 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

haha its almost like an addiction...I want more trees...but I have no more room! Do you keep any of the sapplings to grow in your yard? Its fun to watch them grow and quite honestly, its my favorite part of spring. My neighbor has 3 big white pines too. Our backyards of southern MI are very "northern exposure" lol. You actually see a lot of white paper birch trees, a ton of white pines (MI state tree) and quite a few balsam and douglas firs in southern MI even though "up north" is their natural habitat. 

Our yard is so small and with two kids I want to maximize space for them to play and have a garden, so no trees back there. I’ve got a couple sugar maples in front and the Norway Spruces are right against the fence. Hopefully in a couple years we’ll move out to the suburbs and have a lot of space for tree planting. 

4 minutes ago, michsnowfreak said:

I’m a lover of all things northern trees lol; my backyard has 2 balsam firs (1 is massive), 1 douglas fir, a white paper birch tree, a white pine, a norway spruce & an autumn blaze maple.

Ditto. Northern boreal transition forests are my favorite. My neighbors Norway spruce puts off a handful of saplings in my yard every spring. Want me to ship you some?

43 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Low of 70F at INL this morning, which will easily surpass the monthly record high minimum of 66F set on 5/21/1992 & 5/31/1988. In fact, it's only one degree shy of the June monthly high minimum of 71F set on 6/25/2001. With that said, it is possible that it may fall below 70F by 1 am CDT / midnight CST, but it should stay above 66F. The forecast low tonight is 64F at INL.

Impressive considering we got down to 58 at MSP. The heat island capital of the Midwest. 

We’ve reached 90 at MSP. Setting a new record high for today. There is a 200 acre wildfire burning north of @Brian Din Brimson MN. With the conditions the next few days it could get out of hand quickly if not contained. 

Today is the last windows open day for awhile. The AC will likely be turned on for the first time this year during this upcoming hot stretch. 
 

Tomorrows record high is 88 which is also the forecast high. My gut says we hit 90 everyday Sun-Wed  

70/23 couldn’t script it any better.

72 full sun and a slight breeze today. Some precipitation showing up in fantasy range.

Basically a July temperature forecast here. Can’t even muster up any precipitation, drought starting earlier this year. 

80 and sunny at msp. 
 

First official 80 of 2025

3 blocks from my house, the water is glass, can’t beat this. 

On 5/2/2025 at 5:30 AM, A-L-E-K said:

Go west, young man. 

Extended looks wonderful here from a temperature perspective. We could use some precipitation. 5.48” since January 1st and daily averages are rising quickly.