GFS showed 105-115 for Minneapolis during the last heatwave. We never made it above 98.
I do think we have a better chance of breaking 100 this time around with much lower dews.
Why do you post the GFS, it’s proven over and over again to have a 5-10 degree warm bias.
Heat does look to stick around for the first half of September.
Maybe someone with experience working with ASOS data can help me out. The airport recorded numerous 5min obs of 98.6F, but the official high for the day is 98. Is there data smoothing/correction that occurs or something else?
We appear to be busting low on temperatures for the second consecutive day in Minneapolis.
75/66 with a thick overcast sky. Forecast high temp was 86 today. We’ve made it up to 77 but the temp is bouncing around.
I noticed this weekend besides the usual early maples some of the cottonwoods around town are turning yellow as well. Gotta be drought stress I’m guessing.
NWS is thinking we might make a run at the all time August temperature record of 103 in Minneapolis on Wednesday. I was surprised to learn it hasn’t been above 100 in August here since 1988.
91/72 currently. We’ve actually underachieved a bit on the warmth today.