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Torched up to 51 here at 1pm

Hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. Spent time in Chicago seeing some family and got to experience the seasons change on the drive back. 72 in Milwaukee when I drove through, 61 in Madison an hour later and only 50 with rain when I got to Minneapolis. Pockets of maples starting to really show color.

Got down to 45 here under a thick overcast last night. We have a real shot of hitting the upper 30s in the city tonight, and potential for widespread freezes across the northland. 

1 hour ago, cyclone77 said:

Temp made it down to 43 this morning here.  

Impressive, we made it down to 48 on the heat island. 

Midnight high of 76 today. Spent most of the day in the 60s before hitting 70 in a 5min ob. Certainly feels like early fall right now. Not out of the question we drop into the upper 40s tonight. Already there outside the metro 

A few of the usual early maples are showing some scattered color. 

Bring it

First accumulating snow was October 12th last year, only 6.5 more weeks. 

Will undoubtedly take a trip to northern Minnesota sometime in sept for fall colors

Every time we’ve gone through a dry stretch this summer and get added to D1 on the weekly monitor a line of storms will come through and drop around 1” which quickly catches us back up. 

Weird that I’m rooting for below average precipitation but in the 4 years I’ve lived in Minnesota haven’t had a year below average.

This map gives a great view of how the event evolved from a straight line wind threat to a tornado threat as it moved east. Just incredible stuff. 

Fading thunderstorm woke me up but at least I got a laugh from the weenie that wrote this mornings afd.

Made it up to 90F at MSP this afternoon. 

Not going to be any noteworthy heat around here but upper 80s and muggy in late August gets old fast. 

Pretty active afternoon across central Minnesota. No less then 5 tor warned storms right now.

On 8/10/2020 at 2:55 PM, Brian D said:

Don't think the skate park is around anymore. Ended up being a delinquent hang out. Didn't go well.

He definitely was a delinquent as a teen so that makes sense. His grandparents were schoolteachers in Two Harbors, last name “Sega” if you happened to have them. Not sure when or which schools they worked in. 

To get this thread back on track ended up with 0.41” of rain today, mostly this morning. Kept temps in check, felt like fall.

Images of the flattened corn in Iowa reminds me of the images of flattened pines in the Boundary Waters after the July 4th 1999 derecho. 

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9 minutes ago, Hawkeyecr said:

Real.  I’m having to post with a phone and forgot my password.  It’s a disaster here.  It may be quite awhile before I get power back.  

Glad to hear you are safe. Makes my 61mph gust overnight seem like child's play. 

My brother is without power in Des Moines. Says there’s pretty widespread tree damage in his neighborhood. (Walnut Hill)

Always a homeowners dream to wake up at 2am to the sound of hail hitting the roof, looks like just slightly bigger then pea size here but 2.5” reports in NW burbs.

Prolific lightning producer at least, might be the top storm of the year for me. Storms have been training over the metro for a few hours.

On 8/7/2020 at 1:19 PM, Brian D said:

Fall always might favorite season. Early Summer second. Mid summer is ok when there is some relief from Canada or the Lake. It has gotten a little chilly a couple times. After deer season and T-Day, then its just gets ugly. Some years right during deer season the ugly starts, like I believe this year is going to be one of them. As I've gotten older, winters are a bit harder to take when they get too snowy and bitter.

One of my good friends hunts on family land near Silver Creek, most of the time they are dealing with snow and cold when the season opens. I can only imagine how much more brutal it is for muzzleloader season a few weeks later. His mom is from Two Harbors and he grew up staying up there during the summer. Apparently you guys have a great skate park along the lake, or at least did in the 90s.

Most of the rain and storms have missed the cities so far this weekend. We've managed only 0.03" while it looks like places up north got a few needed inches of rain, wouldn't mind a garden variety storm to come through later today and save me the trouble of watering. 

“NW and stronger” there’s a phrase I miss from winters past when it was a lock to happen seemingly every storm. We’re due for another. 

1 hour ago, Brian D said:

Very warm summer day with a bit of a lake breeze to keep it from sweltering. Get it while we can.

September/October is my favorite time to visit the north-shore. I find cloudy and 50s is perfect hiking weather, less crowds, plus nothing beats waking up to a dusting of snow on the tent. 

The wife and I usually make 1-2 trips up to Lutsen each winter as well.

I’ll be dreaming of those days this weekend, going to be muggy down in the cities again....

Got down to 51 imby last night and I live right in the urban core.

Love that crisp fall feel to the air. 

Upper 60s with dews in the low 50s and a breeze. This is top shelf summer weather. 

2 hours ago, Brian D said:

Nice weather. Cool at night, pleasantly warm aftns. This is great.

 

How you doing down there? I think half the twin city folk are up here on the North Shore right now

Yeah we’ve finally broken the heat and high dew points here after sweltering through much of July, windows are open for the first time in what seems like forever. Always jealous of the natural A/C the lake provides up there. Next week looks nearly perfect around here finally. 

I’ve being hearing that the northland has been overrun by urbanites this summer and generally trashing many areas. Sad. Typically my wife and I like to spend a few weekends hiking the SHT each summer as we are avid outdoors people, but she tore her ACL skiing in early March and had surgery in late May so we’ve been staying put this summer. My cabin fever is running high so I imagine we’ll be doing a lot of camping in September/October. 

Winds out of the NE this evening. Don’t see that too often around here in late July.