DECEMBER 31, 2017 GOES DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE TOP COLDEST NEW YEAR’S EVE’S! Our high temperature was only -9° in Duluth today! We have now tied for the SECOND COLDEST NEW YEAR’S EVE IN HISTORY! Duluth International: #1 Coldest High Temperature -16° 1967 #2 Coldest High Temperature -9° 2017, 1968 #3 Coldest High…
PORT WING, Wis. — High winds battered the Northland today but the Lake Superior Shorelines felt the worst of it. “It’s very windy! Very blustery!” explained the owner of South Shore Bar, Holly Wyant. The winds howled at 20-30mph sustained today, with gusts up to 40mph at times. The lake was under a Storm Warning until 10am and a Gale…
It was no surprise to any Northlander that eventually this warm spell of weather would come to an end. Now we have a date and it is tomorrow. The last sunny and warm day for a least the next week or two occurred yesterday. We will still see the sunshine, but it will just be accompanied by cold temperatures from…
It was no shocker to Northlanders that the end of October and the beginning of November was a cold and snowy one. Our first snowfall of the season was 10.6″ which broke a record for the most snowfall ever in an October calendar day. November carried over this snowy trend to start off the month, but the cold air has…
Today the Northland felt huge wind gusts as a strong low pressure swept across the International Border. Winds were sustained 15-30mph, with gusts up to 48mph! Those were the highest clocked winds in Minnesota and Wisconsin this morning. A lot of other areas also had gusts into the 40 mph range. These strong winds out of the northwest brought in…
This morning was the coldest one we’ve felt so far this season. In fact it broke our 1° record low set back in 1986 as arctic air spilled into the Northland today. It dropped our temperatures 20-40° below average! Here are the temperatures from this morning… Below zero temperatures dominated the Northland! With winds out of the southeast 5-15mph, feel…
A quick update on the snowfall this evening. All of the Northland is seeing some light to moderate snowfall this evening but accumulations will come to an end of about 80-90% of the area by the overnight period. The exception will be for the South Shore and also the Borderlands where some lake effect snow will occur. You read that…
It was a very chilly morning for many areas in Northeast Minnesota, Primarily north of Highway 2. Temperatures managed to drastically crash last night as a cold air mass settled overhead with calming winds and clear skies. These were the perfect ingredients to see temperatures fall just below zero. This is something that is rare this early in the season….
You aren’t mistaken that the cold air arrived earlier this year compared to the last two years. Just looking at last year, temperatures reached 70 degrees with mostly sunny skies. Temperatures today (Monday, Nov 6th) at Duluth International Airport reached only 30 degrees. This was 40 degrees cooler than last year. On top of the cold weather, it has been…
An Alberta Clipper welcomed the Northland with a fresh coat of snow for the start of November. Snowfall began this morning in North Central Minnesota and then advanced into Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin. Snowfall has continued all afternoon and evening which has piled up to several inches. The highest snowfall totals were in Itasca, Cass, and Crow Wing Counties…
It has not even been a full week an we are already talking about our next snow system to impact the Northland this early in the season. Another Alberta Clipper is diving down from Canada as we speak bringing snowfall to the higher elevations of the Rockies. Some areas could see over a foot by tomorrow afternoon. As for us,…
The grasp of Old Man Winter remains relentless this early in the season when many tree leaves have yet to fall which is just bearing additional weight to the already heavy and wet snow that fell last Friday. Snow showers have been on and off this afternoon but more consistent in parts of Northwest Wisconsin along the South Shore. Winter…
It was just the other day that parts of the South Shore saw over a foot of heavy and wet snow. Now, another surge of cold air over Lake Superior will restart the lake effect snow machine. The clipper system that is affecting us right now bringing rain and snow showers this afternoon will be fusing together with a much…
Lake Effect Snow ramped up on Friday night and into Saturday morning, with heavy snow bands setting up along the snowbelt. This made travel difficult on Friday night with snow covered roads. Over a foot of snow fell in Gile, with a majority of northwest Wisconsin getting 2-6 inches of snow accumulations. – METEOROLOGIST BRITTNEY MERLOT Categories: Weather Blog Tags:…
The first Winter Storm of the 2017/18 season has arrived! Duluth accumulated 10.6 inches of snow on Friday, making it the snowiest October day on record! The previous record was 10 inches on Oct. 23, 1933. Here are the highest accumulations in Minnesota. The snowfall isn’t over just yet, as the Lake Effect snow machine is kicking into gear this…
The snow storm we have been watching all week is now underway and is accumulating snowfall as it should be. Snowfall started along the Borderlands early this afternoon but snowfall accumulation was hard to come by initially with surface temperatures above freezing and soil temperatures well above freezing. After the slight delay though, accumulations began and are ongoing this evening….
A taste of the winter season is upon us once again as the Northland braces for yet another risk for snowfall but this time, with accumulations likely. There are winter storm watches in effect for Koochiching, St. Louis, Lake, and Cook Counties until 7 AM. An abnormally moist and powerful clipper from Canada will move into parts of North Central…
The Northland is under the influence of another clipper system tonight, but after this weak storm, a larger complex system will move in Thursday with lasting effect into the weekend. The storm in question is currently moving onshore over British Columbia in Canada with heavy rains along the shore and mountain snows on the higher elevations. By tomorrow night, the…
Cold air is settling into the Northland tonight. This will be the start of a long stretch of below average temperatures. As for tonight scattered rain showers will develop along and east of Highway 53. Winds will also begin to pick up out of the west and northwest at 15 to 20 mph. Rain showers will transition to rain and…
The weather leading up into the weekend felt anything but the middle of fall with a long stretch of sunny skies and temperatures in the 60s and 70s. This was all thanks to a ridge in the jet stream keeping warm air over the central part of the United States with cooler and wetter conditions along the Pacific Northwest. This…
A very moist atmospheric setup with a stalled front and strong low level jet stream combined to produce very heavy rainfall over the Northland as well as downstate Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. There were reports of flooded roadways across parts of the area, but because the heavy rainfall lasted for numerous hours, and the amount of moisture is less in…
A developing storm system is taking aim at the Northland over the next 36 hours. We are already seeing an influence of it with a few light rain showers moving into our western counties this Tuesday evening from Koochiching down to Aitkin, but the main event is yet to arrive. Two level of low pressure to our west are passing…
I t was quite the unusual start to the month of August. Everything began perfectly fine with highs in the lower 80s on the 1st, a lake breeze yesterday with highs in the upper 60s and today…Where do you begin. The high temperature today was 57 degrees and we hit that at the Duluth International Airport at midnight. This was…
An interesting weather system is above to advance into the viewing area tonight which will result in chilly temperatures and a good amount of rainfall. The center of low pressure over South Dakota will drift into Southern Minnesota overnight and then into Southern Wisconsin by late tomorrow evening. The storm is also going to strengthen as it moves through the…
A strange and our of season storm system is currently expected to develop and produce some heavy rainfall over parts of the Northland. A center of high pressure positioned over Central Canada will begin the cool down process tomorrow with northeast winds. Lakeside areas will be in the 60s and farther inland, in the 70s. The Coldest air is yet…
The Northland was under the gun for severe weather today and it started early this morning. The first round of storms developed in South Dakota as hail and damaging winds, but then, these storms fused and turned to a mesoscale convective system of MCS for short. This type of thunderstorm complex is well known for the threat of strong wind gusts….
The severe thunderstorm that caused tornado damage in Polk, Barron, Rusk, and Price county has been increased to an EF 3 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale with maximum sustained winds at 140mph. There was some recently discovered evidence near Conrath where a home was completely destroyed with no interior walls remaining. There was also significant tree damage as well….
LAKE EFFECT SNOW BLASTS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHLAND IN MID-MARCH! As a low pressure system swung to the southwest of the Northland it brought 10-20mph northeast winds across the unfrozen lake. Light snow began to fall around 5pm on Sunday night, from Silver Brook to Duluth. Then around midnight a heavy lake effect snow band set up southwestward from the…
CABLE, Wis. – The Fat Bike Birkie race took place this morning and it’s the largest Fat Bike event in North America. This year the race drew in 1,200 riders from 18 different states and 2 different countries. At the starting line this morning it was a cold one and a different one, as it was the first time…
DULUTH, Minn. – It’s been an unseasonably cold Mid-March day across the Northland and it’s likely the last cold snap of the season. A Wind Chill Advisory was in effect earlier this morning until 9am, feel like temperatures dropped down to -30° below zero. This frigid Friday didn’t stop some Northlanders from their daily routine though. “I like the weather…
It is March first and that means it is the beginning of meteorological spring. Astronomical spring begins later this month on the 20th which is when the plane of earth’s equator passes through the center of the sun. We have seen some interesting stats from this past winter with Duluth averaging a temperature of 18.1 degrees. That makes it the…
Categories: News, News – Latest News, News Update, Weather Blog, Weather in the News Tags: American Birkebeiner, Birkie Cancelled
For only the second time in 44 years all ski races set for this weekend’s Annual American Birkebeiner have been cancelled. The only other time this happened was in 2000. Organizers for North America’s largest cross country ski race held out hope for this weekend as a potential snow storm was on the horizon. Last minute efforts started early as…
HAYWARD, Wisc. – Over 40,000 people are expected to arrive in the Northland tonight in anticipation for the 2017 American Birkibeiner Race. With the recent warm week melting nearly all of the snow pack from this winter, trail conditions are on everyone’s mind. Right now only the north half of the trail from Cable, Wisconsin to Trailhead OO is possibly ski-able on…
For over a week now the meteorological community has been monitoring what appears to be a strong winter storm that is poised to move through the Central Plains and the Upper Midwest. As we began to get closer to this upcoming Friday which is when this storm will occur, the models have been drifting the snow storm from impacting the…
Winter weather will be making a comeback with some rain and snow showers tomorrow and also some light accumulations north of the Highway 2 corridor. Only a dusting to an inch of snow is likely. The main system that has the potential for more than a half foot of snow is expected on Friday where a center of low pressure…
A high pressure brought cold temperatures to the Northland both yesterday and today. We had winds blowing in from the west and northwest in the last 48 hours that brought wind chills into the -20s to the -30s. Actual temperatures were the coldest this morning in Northeast Minnesota where the greatest impact of the cold air was observed. We will…
A prolonged winter weather event moved through the Northland in the last 24 hours with two waves of snowfall. The first band of snow moved into the area after midnight and produced 1-4 inches of snowfall. This was the first low pressure that passed through the Upper Midwest with a secondary low pressure farther south in Iowa that absorbed the energy…
TOWER, Minn. – 21 years ago, the air temperature in Tower, Minnesota hit a chilly 60 degrees below zero. The town, with a population of 500, nestled in the Northland, is the coldest location based on average winter temperatures east of the Great Plains. “So here I am, in the coldest place there is in America,” said Randy Semo, owner…
After a Mid-January Thaw, winter is back in the Northland with a Canadian Clipper bringing beneficial snowfall to all the trails and slopes across the area. The latest snowfall reports so far across the Northland from 8 PM tonight shows 5 inches of snow in Wrenshall with numerous other locations seeing 4 inch amounts. Snow is expected to continue for…
For some time now, we have been monitoring the possibility of a snow system that would affect the Northland or at least parts of the Northland community from Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon. We have seen several different solutions in the forecast model outputs of the storm. The setup we have is a low pressure Canadian Clipper that will move…
A snow storm is currently moving through the Rockies and will eventually push out and develop a new surface low pressure that will carry through the Midwest. We already have winter storm watches in effect because of this upcoming storm system. Up until today, we have seen the track of the storm staying farther southward which would keep the Northland…
High temperatures today were again above freezing in the mid and upper 30’s. We saw mainly light rain falling in waves across the Northland. The fog has returned and is reducing visibilites once again. Tonight as the sun sets we will see temperatures falling again to just around the freezing mark. This will likely put road surface temperatures below freezing…
Meteorologist Gino Recchia discusses the latest NASA report for 2016 as the warmest year on record since records began back in 1880. 16 of the 17 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000 and the planet only seems to continue to warm. Categories: Environment, Weather Blog
Snowfall is leaving the Northland this afternoon and visibilities are beginning to improve but winds are starting to pick up from the northwest which will cause some flowing and drifting of the fresh snowfall especially on open roadways. Northwest Wisconsin is still seeing some snowfall but by this evening that should end as well. Currently Cornucopia tops the list with…
The first chance of snow is ongoing today. We have a weak level of low pressure in South Dakota that is transporting moisture northward to the Northland. It is also getting assistance from the arctic high pressure that brought in all the cold temperatures earlier this week. Snowfall amounts with this clipper will be a dusting along the Borderlands and…
The New Year snow storm has come to an end with some high snowfall totals across parts of the Northland. The highest reports we have seen are from Indus in Koochiching County with 10.3” of snow. Silver Bay wasn’t far behind with 10.1” followed by Elbow Lake in St. Louis County with 10 inches. International Falls saw 9.4” of snow,…
A prolonged snowfall event has accumulated a few inches of snow from yesterday evening. We had the greatest amounts to the north of the Twin Ports. In in the Duluth area, Taft had 1.8 inches, 1.4 inches in Wrenshall, One inch in Lester Park and Lakeside in Douglas County, and 0.6” in Hermantown at the Duluth International Airport. Farther north,…
We are starting off the new year with a winter snow storm that is poised to move through the Northland in the next 48 hours. Snow is already developing and should continue to increase in coverage as it moves through Southern Minnesota to the Northeast. Snow should begin by midnight for areas in Aitkin, Pine, and Carlton Counties. Soon to…
