Author: Karl Spring

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Tuesday Evening Northland Forecast: 6/3/2025

Starting to Clear
Karl Spring,

While the Air Quality Alert for the entire state of Minnesota is still in effect til noon on Wednesday, we are starting to see some light at the end of the smoky tunnel. It is cloudy and rainy and smoky across much of Wisconsin today. The best part of that is the rain, of course. The rain has pretty much…

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Monday Evening Northland Forecast: 6/2/2025

Air Quality Getting Worse
Karl Spring,

The air quality in the Northland continues to worsen, as more wildfires take place, and spread in central and western Canada. Most of the smoke we are getting comes from Saskatchewan and Manitoba. But actually, half the provinces in Canada have forest fires blazing right now. We will not see this end anytime soon. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency just…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 5/30/2025

Smoky Weekend
Karl Spring,

Yes, the air is very smoky. And, it’s particularly noticeable in the mornings, and in the evenings. It makes for weird sky colors in the morning, and some spectacular sunsets in the evenings. It is all due, of course, to more than 1,200 wildfires burning in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, Canada. Because of all that smoke, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 5/23/2025

A Chilly Friday Night
Karl Spring,

We have already had some warm weather in May. But this weekend will not feel like it. We have a Frost Advisory for the entire viewing area tonight; Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the U.P. of Michigan. We will see lows down toward 30 degrees in some low spots, and some upper 20s aren’t out of the question, either. Even tomorrow night…

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Thursday Morning Northland Forecast: 5/1/2025

May Showers
Karl Spring,

April was a little cooler than normal, and a little wetter than normal. Now, we turn the page into May. The average high for today is 57 degrees. We will be right about there, with a high of between 55 and 60. We also have an increasing chance for showers later today, tonight, and tomorrow morning. So, May is starting…

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Wednesday Morning Northland Forecast: 4/30/2025

Windy and Warmer
Karl Spring,

While it was sunny yesterday, it also felt breezy and raw, with a cold north wind most of the day. The average high is 56 degrees, and we only climbed to 49 for a high temp. But it felt much cooler, with persistent, chilly north winds up to 25mph. Inside your car, with the sunshine beaming in, it practically felt…

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Tuesday Morning Northland Forecast: 4/29/2025

Calmer and Easier Weather
Karl Spring,

While there was some rough weather in the southern parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin yesterday, here in the Northland, we pretty much missed out on that. We all got some decent amounts of rain, along with a little lightning and thunder. But, for the most part, we could be satisfied with garden variety thunderstorms at worst. And, I will always…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 4/11/2025

A Super Saturday
Karl Spring,

We are now about three weeks into Spring 2025, and today really felt like it! Our normal high and low for today is 47 and 28. We hit 56 and 30 today, and it was wonderful! The record high for today is 78, set back in 1968. Yes, I was alive then. No, I don’t remember it. There were even…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 4/4/2025

A Calm and Quiet Weekend
Karl Spring,

Remember Wednesday? Winds off Lake Superior gusting to 40mph, six inches or more of wet snow, and terrible roads. Here we are, two days later, the roads are fine, the snow is melting, and the winds have shifted to the NW at only 10-15mph. We deserve a quiet, calm weekend, with no watches or warnings. No travel advisories and blizzards….

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 3/28/2025

A Messy Weekend
Karl Spring,

Springtime in the Northland. We all know what a farce that is. I’ve seen (and shoveled) big snowfalls in March, April and even May. Some people say they’ve shoveled snow in June, but I haven’t experienced that….yet. Today it was 32 degrees in Duluth, and 82 degrees in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Even Rochester, MN hit 80 today. We had…

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Sunday Evening Northland Forecast: 3/23/2025

A Messy Monday
Karl Spring,

Why, yes. It is Spring, officially. Just don’t tell Mother Nature that. The persistent low pressure system that arrived in the Northland late Saturday night is going to hang around a little bit longer. There are Winter Storm Warnings in effect this evening for far northern Minnesota, the North Shore, and parts of the South Shore, into the U.P. of…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 3/21/2025

Winter Storm Watch
Karl Spring,

If you’ve lived in the Northland for any length of time, you know that just because we are now in “Spring,” that does not mean we are done with winter weather. Over the years, I’ve seen heavy snowfalls, and even blizzard conditions in March, April, and even once in May. The name of the season means nothing in the Northland!…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 3/14/2025

A Windy Weekend
Karl Spring,

Most of the western half of Minnesota is under either a Winter Storm Warning or a Blizzard Warning for most of Saturday. The Blizzard Warning is for southwest Minnesota from 4am to 7pm on Saturday, for winds of 50mph, and up to 9″ of snow. The Winter Storm Warning is for northwest Minnesota from 7am to 7pm Saturday, for 3…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/28/2025

A Cool Start to March
Karl Spring,

Hello March! We’ve survived January and February, and really, they weren’t so bad. Although, February did bring us 19 consecutive days with WAY below average high temperatures. What bugs me even more, is that we are still 26″ below where we should be for snowfall for the season. While we can still get snow in March and April (and yes,…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/21/2025

A Warmer Weekend
Karl Spring,

Today (Friday) was the 19th consecutive day our high temperature was below average. We haven’t been above or at the normal daytime high since we hit 33 degrees for a high on February 2nd. That is a long stretch of colder than normal weather. Especially when you consider we had many morning lows in the range of the -26 we…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/14/2025

Warmer Temps & Light Snow
Karl Spring,

We have had below normal high temps every day, since February 2nd. That’s 12 straight days below average high temps. And many of those days, we have been way below normal! We even had a frigid overnight low in Duluth of -26 degrees, just two mornings ago, on February 12th. Even though we will warm up toward 20 tomorrow, it…

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Monday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/10/2025

Very Cold and Very Dry
Karl Spring,

There is a saying that sometimes it’s just too cold to snow. That’s not entirely accurate. It can practically snow at any temperature below the mid 30s. What is more of a factor is the origin of the airmass. Oftentimes, the winter storms that bring the most snowfall to the Northland come out of the panhandle of Oklahoma. They tap…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/7/2025

Here Comes More Snow
Karl Spring,

We have a Winter Weather Advisory in effect from Midnight tonight til 6pm Saturday evening. It covers the whole area, except for the far northern parts of the Iron Range. It’s generally for 2-5″ of snow for the northern half of the viewing area, and 6-8″ of snow for the southern half, heading down toward the Twin Cities. The dividing…

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Thursday Evening Northland Forecast: 2/6/2025

A Super Windy Day
Karl Spring,

We had a nice, soft snowfall over much of the Northland last night and this morning. Most of us got around 3-4″ of light, fluffy snow. It was just fine to wake up to, and get going this morning. No big deal. Then, the high pressure came blasting in behind the storm system, and the pressure gradient between the low…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 1/31/2025

Winter Weather Advisories
Karl Spring,

We need more snow. At this point in the winter season, we should have had about 52″ of snowfall. We are sitting at 24″ in Duluth, some 28″ short of where we should be. It’s been cold enough for snow in the last couple months. It’s just been too dry. There’s been more snow in Iowa and up in Canada…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 1/24/2025

A Warmer Weekend
Karl Spring,

A week ago tonight, I was telling you about an Extreme Cold Warning that was imminent. From Saturday thru Tuesday, we fought off the coldest air of the winter. Overnight low temps got down to -20, and the accompanying windchills dove down to -50. It was a brutal 4-day stretch. And, that’s why I live here. It’s a challenge I…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 1/17/2025

Extreme Cold Warning
Karl Spring,

The National Weather Service is using a new product this winter, called an Extreme Cold Warning. It’s pretty self-explanatory. And they have issued one for most of the Northland, which will be in effect from 6pm Saturday night, til Noon on Tuesday. It includes all of the FOX 21 TV viewing area in northern MN and WI, but it does…

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Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 1/10/2025

More Snow, Then Cold
Karl Spring,

We are about halfway through winter. That seems hard to believe, since we’ve hardly had any snow yet. I was pleased to see we got 1-2″ yesterday. But, I want more….lots more! I want a low pressure system to park itself over Lake Superior, and throw 1-2 FEET of snow our way! I keep looking at extended forecasts that go…

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