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Looks like a faster more progressive system on today’s runs. Should still usher in flakes and colder air on the backside. Maybe northern Minnesota will start laying down a snowpack late week. 

I’ll have whatever the GFS is serving.

31 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

shame venison tastes so bad

This is an absurdly inaccurate take. 

This cool down certainly was more pronounced down in Iowa. Our lows have underachieved this week. Haven’t dipped below 30. Still no hard freeze yet in the city proper.

Overcast is spitting a few flurries on us this afternoon.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the standard bearer against which all other winter storms in Minnesota are compared against. The 1991 Halloween Blizzard produced 28.4” of snow in Minneapolis and over 36” in Duluth. I’m sure @Brian Dhas some good memories of this one.  
 

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/journal/9110_31_Halloween_Blizzard.html

Big rains for Iowa. Hopefully the Wednesday system spreads some of that up this way. Drought has been tightening its grip since early September. 

Corcoran in western Hennepin County got down to 24. Coldest spot in the metro this morning. 

First official freeze in Minneapolis with a low of 30. Couple weeks late this year. Mid/upper 20s outside the urban core. 

0.30” of rain today. Easily our biggest total since before Labor Day. 

Frosty again this morning. Airport only dropped to 38 but numerous PWS in the neighborhood read 34-35.

37 in the heart of the heat island. Even a few patches of frost. Widespread 30-34 outside the city. 

Coldest spot near the Twin Cities was Carlos Avery Wildlife refuge which is about 40 miles north of downtown. Got down to 34 degrees.

I’m up in the Chisago Lakes area for work today which is near that refuge and there was patchy frost in some low lying areas. 

19 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

we've been riding the no heat / no ac sweet spot for a prolonged period here which is nice

That’s the best. We just turned our furnace on for the first time this season a few moments ago. 44 outside.

Stuck in the upper 40s with a stiff breeze this morning. Fall has arrived. 

Late last week it looked like a solid 1-2” soaker today. By Monday it appeared more like 0.50”. The NWS graphic for today had us at 0.1-0.25”.

Storm total of 0.02” when the trend has been dry all year ride it I guess.

Crazy seeing these precip reports across the region. We’ve managed a meager 0.27” of rain so far in October.

It’s September in October this year.

A majority of public ash trees are dead/dying around here but many on private property have been inoculated, and are thriving. 
 

October looks like an extension of summer this year. Although I'm sure we will see an abrupt swing towards the end of the month. I’ve lived in Minneapolis for 6 years and all but one has produced accumulating snow in October. 

Preliminary data suggests that 2021 will be the hottest meteorological summer on record in Minneapolis with an average temperature of 75.6 topping out 75.4 from 1988.

At least today was very seasonal and pleasant.

The last 5 days have brought significant drought relief with 3-5” of rain falling over a large area of central and southern Minnesota. 

7 minutes ago, Brian D said:

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.

Really hoping you guys get a good soaking rain event to snuff out the fires. 

Minnehaha Creek is flowing at 0.29cfs, the mean is 88cfs.

Big wildfire started yesterday up north near Isabella MN. Hearing reports that trees up that way are dropping leaves already. 

We had 10 days AoA 90 in July at Minneapolis. Full season average is 12

July was 1.7F above average at MSP. 
 

0.87” of precipitation. Half of that on the 6th.