Author: Karl Spring

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 12/12/2025

A Super Cold Weekend
Karl Spring,

Astronomically speaking, it’s still Autumn. Yikes! The Winter Solstice arrives on December 21st, the shortest day of the year. Then, we are officially in Winter (Astronomically). Well, then this is going to be a terribly cold Fall weekend. We have a Cold Weather Advisory for most of the Northland, for windchills down to -40 this weekend, Far NW Minnesota, and…

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Sunday Evening Northland Forecast: 12/7/2025

A Snowy Week
Karl Spring,

I’m pretty sure there’s a 100% chance we are going to have a very White Christmas, this year. We already have a foot of snow on the ground, and there’s more coming, each of the next 3 days. Plus, our high and low temps have been below average for about 2 weeks, so the snow certainly isn’t melting any time…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 12/5/2025

A Chilly Weekend!
Karl Spring,

After Thursday’s very cold day (low temp of -12) we warmed up a little bit on Friday, with a high of 21 (still far below the average high of 28). For the weekend, we go plunging right back down to very below average temperatures. Over the weekend, our highs will be 12 and 10. We will be below zero both…

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Friday Morning Northland Forecast: 12/5/2025

A Lot Warmer Than Yesterday!
Karl Spring,

Yesterday at this time, the temp was -12, and the wind chill was -25. It was brutal to be outside. The wind seemed to pull the air right out of your lungs. It was mid-January cold, in the first few days of December. Impressive and intimidating. Today, it is 15 degrees ABOVE zero, with very light winds. It feels 1,000…

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Thursday Evening Northland Forecast: 12/4/2025

A Brief Warm-up For Friday
Karl Spring,

Astronomical Winter doesn’t arrive til December 21st, the shortest day of the year, and the Winter Solstice. Then, I expect it to be cold. But, the below normal temps we have endured this week have been more like mid-January, than early December. It seems this winter will indeed be more of a ‘real’ winter, than the last 2 ‘wimpy’ winters…

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Thursday Morning Northland Forecast: 12/4/2025

Below Average Temps Continue
Karl Spring,

Astronomical Winter is still 17 days away, arriving on December 21st. That’s also the Winter Solstice, and the shortest day of the year. In spite of that, we have had an entire week of well below average temps, bottoming out with this morning’s temp of -12, which is only 4 degrees short of the record low for the day, which…

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Wednesday Morning Northland Forecast: 12/3/2025

Feels Like January
Karl Spring,

We are still 18 days away from Astronomical Winter, which arrives on December 21st, this year. Our average high temp for today is 29 degrees. Our daytime high will be 10 degrees, along with strong, cold NW winds up to 25mph today. That is some very January cold, in early December. I have maintained that this will be a ‘real’…

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Tuesday Morning Northland Forecast: 12/2/2025

A Windy Day with Light Snow
Karl Spring,

Gray is the weather color of the day. In the Twin Ports, the water and the lake reflect each other. And today, that color is just plain gray. A low pressure system and warm front will move from west to east across the area today, bringing with it slightly warmer temperatures, and some light snow. It won’t be much accumulation,…

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Monday Morning Northland Forecast: 12/1/2025

A Cold Week
Karl Spring,

Today is the first day of Meteorological Winter. And, boy, it feels like it! The average high for today is 30 degrees, and our high today is going to be half of that, at only 15 degrees. Adding insult to injury, a week ago today, we tied the record high of 53, under sunny skies. So, today, with a high…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 11/21/2025

A Mild November Weekend
Karl Spring,

The average high temp is down to 35 degrees. The sunset is at a super early 4:28. I suppose there’s no stopping the inevitable slide into winter, at this point. But, we are not there yet. In fact, this weekend that we are on the cusp of, is going to be a nice reprieve from the oncoming dark, cold and…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 11/14/2025

A Cooler and Windy Weekend
Karl Spring,

It was quite enjoyable to hit 50 degrees for a high in Duluth on Friday. And now, thanks to a cold front going over us tonight, we will return to Autumn, at about noon on Saturday. The mild SE winds were what warmed us up so nicely on Friday, but on Saturday, behind that cold front, the winds will shift…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 11/7/2025

A Cold and Windy Weekend
Karl Spring,

This week has been a shock to the system. First, the sunset today was at 4:44pm, which just seems ridiculous. By 5:00, it seems like Midnight. So, that has been a rough transition to make (into Central Standard Time). Plus, the high and low temps have really plummeted this week, while the strong northwest winds have really kicked up! I…

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Sunday Evening Northland Forecast: 11/2/2025

Warm & Windy to Cold & Wet
Karl Spring,

And, we are into November. Some obvious signs include: the sun setting so early, the nights being so long, the gales of November, and the cooler temps that will rush into our area, later this week. With the passage of a cold front, our winds will change from SW on Sunday, to West and NW on Monday and Tuesday. They…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/31/2025

November Weather
Karl Spring,

And now, the imminent slide into winter accelerates. Saturday night, we set our clocks back an hour, so it will really get dark fast, Sunday evening. The sun is lower in the sky, the days are shorter, the high temps are dropping each day, and we are on our way. I don’t have to tell you it’s only around 7-8…

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Thursday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/30/2025

Halloween Eve
Karl Spring,

We all have a few things going on, the next few days, and I think the weather is going to cooperate, just fine. First of all, Friday is Halloween. We are all concerned about the conditions for trick or treating. Even though the models “officially” say we have a 30% chance for some light rain on Friday, I’m not buying…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/24/2025

A Sunny and Dry Weekend
Karl Spring,

It doesn’t seem that long ago that our average high temp was in the 60s, or even the 50s. Well, now that we are in the last week of October, the average high and low temps are actually 49 and 33. Man, those numbers went down quickly! It was even more shocking when the low in Duluth this morning was…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/17/2025

A Dry and Windy Weekend
Karl Spring,

Two weekends ago, we had high temps around 80. Last weekend, we had high temps in the upper 60s. This weekend, our highs will be in the 50s. Hmmm….changes are happening. We are well into Fall, now. The days are getting shorter (quickly), The high temps are getting cooler, and the lows at night are, too. Halloween is two weeks…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/10/2025

A Super Saturday on the Way!
Karl Spring,

Do you remember last Saturday? We had a high of 84 degrees! That was, of course, a record for the date. Then, on Sunday, it was cooler, cloudy, windy and rainy. This weekend will be an almost exact repeat of last weekend, except for the fact that we will be nowhere near 84 degrees tomorrow. The average high for tomorrow…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/3/2025

One Last Warm Weekend
Karl Spring,

Yes, it is Autumn. It arrived back on September 21st. The average high for today is a mere 59 degrees. And….we had a high of 78 today. The record high for today is 82. But, Saturday, we’ll hit a high of about 84, and the record high is 83, set in 1922. So, either we will hit it, or we’ll…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 9/19/2025

Last Weekend of Summer
Karl Spring,

Monday, September 22nd at 1:19pm. That is the moment Autumn (Astronomical) will arrive in Duluth and Superior, and the whole Northland. Meteorological Autumn started on September 1st. But Astronomical Autumn is the version I have always gone with. After all the heat the land and water around has absorbed all summer, there is about a 3-week lag time, for the…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 9/12/2025

A Warmer Weekend
Karl Spring,

Meteorological Autumn arrived on September 1st. Being “old school,” I prefer using the Astronomical definition. So for me, Autumn arrives on September 22nd, the day of the Autumnal Equinox, which is when the sun is directly over the Equator, and day and night are roughly equal, all over the globe. That in itself, is mind-boggling. So, in my book, we…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 9/5/2025

A Cold Friday, and A Warmer Weekend
Karl Spring,

We tied a record in Duluth today! The record low/hi for today (the coldest high temp) was 52, set way back in 1904. That’s 121 years ago! An old record! Today’s average high is 71, so our high temp of only 52 degrees, was indeed, quite chilly. Plus, we had NW winds of 35mph, so it was quite a cold,…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 8/29/2025

A Perfect Labor Day Weekend
Karl Spring,

When you consider a long holiday weekend (Friday thru Monday), you hope that at least half the days will be nice. But, to get 3 or 4 decent weather days over that timespan? That seems unlikely. Yet, that is exactly what we are in store for, this Labor Day Holiday Weekend! There is a stationary front off to our southwest,…

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Sunday Evening Northland Forecast: 8/24/2025

Frost Advisory Overnight
Karl Spring,

It’s always a little shocking the first time in late summer, when we hear about cold temps on the way, or a chance for frost, or even SNOW? Well, we don’t have to worry about the fluffy, white stuff just yet. But, for overnight tonight, a Frost Advisory has been issued for Koochiching county, and the northern two-thirds of St….

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