Brian D

0.12" of rain yesterday brings me up to 0.34" for the month. Very dry, and looking the same for the next few days. That's ok tho, kinda welcome with such a robust snow melt this year. Gives the ground a chance to deal with all the moisture.

Enjoy. Very nice wx for tomorrow. Fair n 70's with Sunday being a little cool, and breezy. Cloudy, chilly today, tho.

For Parent's Day July 23 looks like a front moving through with warmer temps, and a threat of shwrs/stms.

A little hazy from the smoke today, but not bad. Looks like it has spread out across the sub, and thinned a bit, but out west across the border country, and W CA, still pretty thick.

Yep, known this for some time. We have made things worse. Speaking of AUS, the natives there have tried to get the gov there to let them manage the forests, and do regular control burns so they don't have these massive fires, but the gov won't let them. I remember seeing some articles on this back in 2019/2020. Thanks for the info.

Occam's razor. It all natural. The conditions happened to be just right for fires, and some lightning strikes set them off. There's always potential for arson, but they are in a remote area, so less likely intentional. And the smoke will have some effect on weather conditions, but nothing as bad as a cooling effect on the climate as a volcano can produce. It'll wash out of the atmosphere pretty quickly.

Mid 50's here imby, but a little cooler along the lakeshore with a NE wind. Sky Harbor arpt on Park Point is running mid 40's. Chilly day, but dandelions are popping out today, so Spring is springing, albeit a little slow, but that's northern wx for ya.

Smoke has cleared out here, but looks bad south of me around MSP.

Smoky haze from CA wildfires moving through today, and sounds like tomorrow, too. Mixed in with clouds, this evening has a brown look to the sky.

I don't know if we have any Mom's that post here, but if we do "Happy Mother's Day" to you.

And here the grass is just starting to get long enough to be cut for the first time (few more days), and trees are starting to bud out.

Decent forecast. Looks like high pressure will clear things out on Monday. System started affecting the W sub on the 11th so a little more than a couple days.

More history from Philadelphia starting in 1790-1847. Lots of cool historical weather records around, but so many are not necessarily as complete as the ones we have noted here. Many are from military camps across the country, and are not quite complete. Another note would be to remember that those early records are very rural, so it would be nice to compare the most rural records in an area as possible to see how things faired over time. Minneapolis, Philadelphia, etc started very rural, and became very urban in temp recording location. And those locations next to the Lakes like Duluth, Chicago, etc started near the shorelines, then moved inland. Changing the temp profile (diurnal range, and avg) in both instances. Here in Philly, you can see the avg temp is no greater than 54 until the late 1870's, when the avg is greater than that regularly, and slowly warms from there. Too bad there is a three decade gap. Also of interest is the reference to the year without a summer in 1816 after that massive eruption of Tambora the year before. https://books.google.com/books?id=yXkWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=temperature+philadelphia+1790&source=web&ots=kDcJ9xhG8H&sig=ocb5JfGI5A8j5ApWfBacyRyY2pY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#v=onepage&q&f=false

When I was landscaping, that would be ideal. But now 75-80 with 60-65 dews is comfortable. More than that gets too stuffy, and you need A/C. Rather not have to use that, but we get a few days when it's needed. My doctor mentioned a few years ago that northern folk are pretty hardy, and can adjust rather quickly to swings in climate, unlike others that live further south.

In a couple months, you'll wish it was like this LOL

Going to be in the 70's here today in town. Windows are open, and furnace off. Very nice!

Because your listing cities on the eastern edge of my chart range, thought I'd put this one up. Those charts are closer to the eastern US profile, and what I have is much closer to those for April.

Prelim data in for April. Slightly cooler than avg. The last 11 yrs (since 2013) have had 8 yrs of avg/well below avg temps. Charts shown 5/10 yr trends respectively.

Lol, better than 3' of snow. Yeah, typical weather around the big pond as things begin to warm. NE MN is full of swamp, too, so dense fog is common all over this region. Some thunder developed over the lake, and moved through last night with 0.1" of rain. Nice to see, and hear Spring. Temps looking good this week with a little "cooler by the lake" as usual. "Skeeters" will be robust this year, as well. They're usually not bad in town, thankfully, but flies are the pits. At least they're easier to kill until it's over 80F, then they get real speed. Skeeter buzzing your head at 0 dark 30, and trying to smack that SOB (seeing stars sometimes when you miss LOL) is a real pain.

Temps of 75-80 with 60-65 dews is perfect summer weather. Anymore is just miserable.

You can see from the annual values in the charts above to the official record starting in the 1870's how things line up. Warming started in the 20's there. Would be interesting to know the locations of the measurements back then, but Detroit grew pretty fast, with landscape changes, all helped change the temp profile some. Pretty cool historical record. Added the MSP chart for comparison starting in 1820, and it's pretty similar. The 1850's - mid 1870's were a bit cool, and that data is missing with your charts, and the Detroit graph. But prior to the 1850's it was pretty back and forth overall from warmer, and cooler years. Wonder what kicked off those cooler decades? But at the same time during then, a big drought was going on in the western half of the country, although not as bad as centuries before. Very interesting. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/climate/twin_cities/pioneer.html

Temps are in the 50's right now here, with some wind (25-35 mph) that will die down later today. Looks pretty seasonable in the coming days with generally E winds, and temps in the 50's n 60's. Pretty dry conditions on tap.

Yeah, insane dude. Winter heaven, Spring nightmare!

Pretty tough start to May, and still coming down hard over the UP.

Weather for this day will be starting on the 28th of April, and exiting on the 1st of May. So I'm off on the timing of this event. And there will be some snow in the northern areas.