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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…