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Unfortunately we bagged a few 5min obs of 50 degrees which will be our high today before the rain moved in. Currently 47 and dropping.

Here’s the coldest airport obs I can find across Minnesota. Looks like a season ending freeze across the northland. Frost advisories for the Twin Cities and points north tonight. I can’t recall an earlier winter headline that I’ve been under before. I remember being in Iowa with my parents to see general Wesley Clark speak in September 2000 and there being a frost risk not sure the date or what type of advisory was posted. Virginia MN: 29 Cook MN: 28 Bigfork MN: 27 Bemidji MN: 28 Ely MN: 27

Today's high of 52 broke the old record low max of 54 set back in 1929. Record lows of 38F on the 9th and 37F on the 10th might be in play if things work out just right.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.