Brian D

So-so forecast here. Not much rain to speak of, with some showers moving through the C Lakes region today. Front does move in today, but turns stationary with high pressure moving along S CA bringing in another front from the N by Monday over the N areas. Hot weekend to be sure in the W sub. Enjoy your holiday weekend everyone

Duluth is looking at possible 90+ over the weekend, so Sept 2-4 will be near record, record territory. Labor Day 1 1929 - 90 2 1978 - 88 Sept 1 1894 - 94 Sept 2 1983 - 92 Sept 3 1960 - 89 Sept 4 1897 - 89 Sept 5 1947 - 90

Looks like Sunday will be the hottest day here with a possible 90+ temp. Would be the first for the summer here in town if that pans, and rival the record. Labor day itself will be in the 80's, and that being near record territory for that holiday. But because TH co-op has switched to a.m. readings for the 1st time in it's history in 2021 (as far as I can tell), officially Sunday's high will be recorded on Monday (Labor day), so upper 80's - low 90's would be a record. In the end, it will depend on exact wind direction. If more offshore, looks good, but a little lake air in the mix, and that will suppress the temps some. But away from the shoreline is looking pretty HOT! Labor Day record high in TH: 1 1929/59/2007 - 86 2 1921/33/36/2008 - 83 As for early Sept days themselves: Sept 1 1953 - 92 Sept 2 1978 - 88 Sept 3 1925 - 91 Sept 4 1897 - 87 Sept 5 1908 - 90

After some cooler wx around here, looks like a nice, and warm weekend on tap. Rather hot just a few miles to the south of me tho. Get what you can, Fall is around the corner, especially here in the northern areas.

Going to agree with you on this. Climate change discussions end up causing too much debate that can get heated. That's why we have a Climate Change section on the forum. And just to be clear, when I post my monthly charts for temp anoms, its purpose is not to get into climate debates, just to show data, and where we stand now. The why this, and that can be discussed somewhere else if members wish to do that. At the same time, if a post is made, and comments follow, it's natural for one to want to defend his position. That's when it can get dicey, and needs to be halted.

Yeah, because you have high humidity being transported around, and add high soil moisture....nasty!

Not hard to see why dews are so high. Ample moisture to work with as the trees/crops just suck it out of the ground, and send it into the air. What a soupy mess. ISH!

Another overcast day. No fog or mist, but temps staying in the low-mid 60's. Very Fallish wx as the southern areas bake. EDIT: BTW, my furnace kicked in this morning, so that stills works, and is ready for the Fall wx coming up quick. What a contrast lol.

Cool, gray day here with a light fog, and mist this morning. 0.45" of rain in the hours before sunrise as scattered stms moved through. And yet, just a couple hrs drive south is a sauna.

OUCH!

Just looking ahead here. Today's 12z GFS run looking like what I'm expecting for Labor day weekend. Unsettled weather. So we'll see if that pans out.

Looks like I'm a day off on this one. Front moves through on the 20th with little fanfare. Precip looks to be pretty isolated, if any.

Circled the dome, and came in from the NE looks like. Well, felt like sharing

Thick smoke moved in today. Nasty skies

Aug temps so far show the bigger swings in max temps around here along the shoreline. Min's stay relatively close. Pretty typical summer so far this year, except for precip. Although typical is relative depending on what baseline you use. 2023-08-01 0.00 73 56 2023-08-02 0.00 69 57 2023-08-03 0.00 80 62 2023-08-04 0.00 87 64 2023-08-05 0.00 71 59 2023-08-06 0.00 73 57 2023-08-07 0.00 74 58 2023-08-08 0.00 85 59 2023-08-09 0.10 79 58 2023-08-10 0.00 77 54 2023-08-11 0.55 74 56 2023-08-12 0.12 64 57 2023-08-13 0.00 70 55 2023-08-14 0.00 71 57 2023-08-15 0.00 71 53 2023-08-16 0.00 84 55 2023-08-17 0.43 80 60

No thick smoke plumes mixed in makes it twice as nice.

Front passed through pretty quickly yesterday, instead of a rain train for a little while like I was hoping for, so 0.43" in the bucket (1.20" for the month). It's something. Lawn went from partly golden to all green today. Even heard geese moving around, so that's a sign of the season coming to an end soon. Looks like some smoke will be back in the forecast for me, but sat images don't show anything to bad, at least in comparison to weeks past.

Most welcome indeed

Rain shield running SW/NE across NC MN. Sure hope that comes over me tonight. Couple inches of soaking rain would be most welcome.

Looking at model runs this morning, looks like a good douching in S Cal with a tropical system moving in along the Baha. Seems to me it has been a few years since they have seen one move through down there.

Decent threat of svr wx this aftrn. Hoping for some intense downpours. Was in the mid 80's (upper 60's dews) yesterday after a stretch of low 70's. Looks like a decent stretch of summer in the coming days, but after that...mmm potpourri I guess. Potpourri is typical my way anyway. Avg's start there descent in a big way in a couple weeks.

Maples always start showing Fallish sometime in mid to late Aug, depending on the temps, and precip. They seem to be pretty sensitive. If we don't get more rains around here, going to be a dull, brownish color leaf season.

0.67" yesterday brings Aug total up to 0.77" so far. Tomorrow's rain chance is looking less likely for me now. Looks like Duluth southward should do well.

OUCH!

MSP under the gun with some decent cells, and heavy rain. Decent hail sigs in there.