October 2025 General Discussion

[Brian D]

Nice start to the month. THHS's Homecoming game is this Friday, and it looks like a summery day with highs in the 70's. BTW, my grandson and his girlfriend were crowned King n Queen.  

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Extension of summer here for sure. It has been 90 or warmer a grand total of 3 times in October in Minneapolis. We could add 2 this year. The all time warmest overnight low for the month could be in jeopardy too. 
 

I still think we see a dusting of snow by Halloween. 

[madwx]

things are going to definitely get more active starting next week.  enjoy the summer temps while you can

[cyclone77]

High clouds kept temps in check today here, with only 84.

 

[IWXwx]

Drought conditions showing up on satellite. 

[Brian D]

8 minutes ago, IWXwx said:

Drought conditions showing up on satellite. 

Are the corn fields harvested? If not, looks like dried out corn that's ready to be. Regardless, it has been dry your way. 

[Chicago Storm]

Drought conditions showing up on satellite. 

don’t fall for that social media post going around.

that’s just the crops fading and being harvested. literally looks like that every year around this time.

[Jackstraw]

Yeah you can't "see" drought from space. However the crops are crispy especially soybeans which have been a crispy brown for 3-4 weeks. I noted significant browning over the midwest from those geo-color sat pics a month ago. Some of it is crops, some of it is bare earth from early harvest.

I will say its definitely a very very dry harvest/ If they running through soybean field in the evenings the dust lingers along the ground so thick you can only see a couple hundred feet when you drive through it, for maybe a half mile. Early afternoon you can see huge clouds of dust riding the thermals into the air from the combines. Its eerily got a scifi look to it from Dune lol.

[Jackstraw]

5 hours ago, IWXwx said:

Drought conditions showing up on satellite. 

Thats mostly harvest or crops close to it. Does it every year though rarely all at once as of late. One thing around here, farmers that got flooded out early summer and raced to re-plant are being re-warded with this weather. Its mostly soybeans that they did that as its harder to recover corn. But there are huge swaths of still green growing soybeans in fields and they are harvesting around them hoping for another 3 weeks before a frost shunts them/ It was a big gamble but many lost so many crops in that couple of weeks of intense flooding it was worth the risk.

[Spartman]

[IWXwx]

7 hours ago, Brian D said:

Are the corn fields harvested? If not, looks like dried out corn that's ready to be. Regardless, it has been dry your way. 

 

5 hours ago, Chicago Storm said:

don’t fall for that social media post going around.

that’s just the crops fading and being harvested. literally looks like that every year around this time.

 

1 hour ago, Jackstraw said:

Yeah you can't "see" drought from space. However the crops are crispy especially soybeans which have been a crispy brown for 3-4 weeks. I noted significant browning over the midwest from those geo-color sat pics a month ago. Some of it is crops, some of it is bare earth from early harvest.

I will say its definitely a very very dry harvest/ If they running through soybean field in the evenings the dust lingers along the ground so thick you can only see a couple hundred feet when you drive through it, for maybe a half mile. Early afternoon you can see huge clouds of dust riding the thermals into the air from the combines. Its eerily got a scifi look to it from Dune lol.

 

1 hour ago, Jackstraw said:

Thats mostly harvest or crops close to it. Does it every year though rarely all at once as of late. One thing around here, farmers that got flooded out early summer and raced to re-plant are being re-warded with this weather. Its mostly soybeans that they did that as its harder to recover corn. But there are huge swaths of still green growing soybeans in fields and they are harvesting around them hoping for another 3 weeks before a frost shunts them/ It was a big gamble but many lost so many crops in that couple of weeks of intense flooding it was worth the risk.

Thanks guys. I'm sure you're right. I know the soybeans are being harvested, but still quite a few corn fields around here that's still pretty green, but drying rapidly. 

[cyclone77]

I'd say about 75% of the crops around here have been harvested already.  One big plus of having no rain in a month is everything dried out nicely for the harvest.

[Jackstraw]

They've been hitting the corn hard while it still has some green around here. I'd imagine its farmers trying to get a good price as the number of industrial drying silo's around here have been going up like crazy, maybe 2 or 3 every 5 sq miles. The commodities market for grain is bit volatile right now.

[Chinook]

what type of tree is this?

[Brian D]

Some scattered shwrs/stms blossomed around my area last night. 0.20" from that. Looks like the lawn will have to be mowed one last time. 

[Brian D]

This type of wx is possible up my way this time of year. We shall see. 

[Chinook]

I've created a new loop including all 500mb maps last month (it's 24-hour daily anomalies)

https://great-lakes-salsite.web.app/Sep_2025_500mb_loop.html

[cyclone77]

It's October 3rd and still banging off 90 degree days.  Hit 90 at MLI and DVN today, 91 here.

[OrdIowPitMsp]

87 both yesterday and today at MSP. Temps actually underperformed a bit today versus guidance.

Tomorrow is our best shot at an October 90 with blast furnace winds from the south. 

[Chinook]

Yesterday, Toledo had a high of 86, low of 48. 86 is close to the record of 90, and 48 is one degree below normal.

[A-L-E-K]

Caved and turned on the ac

[cyclone77]

Seems like not too long ago we had endless 80 degree dewpoint days.  

And now we have this..

 

[Chambana]

Where are you?

[IndTenn]

On 10/2/2025 at 7:21 PM, Chinook said:

what type of tree is this?

Hibiscus syriacus, aka rose-of-sharon

[OrdIowPitMsp]

Record high of 91 at MSP. This is the latest occurrence in the year of a 90+ temperature on record for Minneapolis. 
 

Presumably we will also set a record high min of 72 today as well. 

[hawkeye_wx]

Today was the first breezy day in a long time.  It seems like the last month has been dead calm almost every day.

It has been extremely warm, but it's very different than the heat a couple months ago.  If the sun goes behind a cloud or the wind kicks up, it's suddenly comfortable.  Also, by late afternoon it's already cooling off.  By evening, it feels amazing.

There is a big construction project by my house that has been ongoing since July, in which tens of thousands of yards of soil has been excavated and moved around.  They have been very lucky to have such dry weather over the last several weeks.  They are about to start work on the end of my street.  Hopefully, they can get it done before the weather becomes more active.

[Stebo]

It was in the low to mid 70s in the western UP at 530am. That would be incredible warmth in July at that time of night let alone early October. 

[Torchageddon]

We're on day 3 out of 4 of above 28C/82.5F highs with Sat reaching 30C! I was irked in Sept that we didn't have any highs above 25C; I needed more and Oct delivers. Last week 4 out of 7 days had few if any clouds too, crazy. Low was 17C, it was nice waking up without feeling cold in t-shirt and shorts. That low is higher than the daytime avg high.

[OrdIowPitMsp]