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Friday Morning Northland Forecast: 10/11/2024

Cooler With A Chance For Rain

While it’s hard to complain about the fantastic summer and fall we’ve had this year, we could really use a good day or two of rain. We are more than 3″ below average for the year, and we’ve had a really dry August, September and October. Fortunately, we might just get a little precipitation this weekend. And, it’s still in…

Thursday Evening Northland Forecast: 10/10/2024

Cooler Temps Are on the Way!

It was fun to feel one more day of summertime temps today! Duluth hit 73 degrees, Minneapolis came in at 79, and in west-central Minnesota, Alexandria topped out at 82 degrees! And, that’s going to be about the end of that! A cold front is plowing over the state overnight, and that will take our temps down significantly for Friday,…

Thursday Morning Northland Forecast: 10-10-2024

A Warm and Sunny Thursday

Hurricane Milton made landfall on the west coast of Florida about 8:30 pm local time, last night as a Category 3 hurricane, with top winds of about 155 mph. It had a storm surge of 8-12 feet, and dumped up to 16″ of rain on St. Petersburg. It moved NE, across Florida overnight, and is now well east of Florida,…

Wednesday Morning Northland Forecast: 10-9-2024

Sunny Wednesday

The effects of Hurricane Milton are already being felt on the west coast of Florida. As of Wednesday morning, Milton is still a category 5 hurricane, with winds of 155mph, heading NE at 14mph, towards Tampa and Orlando. As it approaches landfall, it may change in size and intensity, but it will remain one of the biggest hurricanes to ever…

Tuesday Morning Northland Forecast: 10-8-2024

Sunny Tuesday

Let’s start with the nation’s worst weather. All eyes are on Florida, and the imminent arrival of Hurricane Milton. It is expected to hit the west coast of Florida late on Wednesday, or possibly in the early morning hours of Thursday. It is currently a category 4 hurricane, with top winds of 155mph, and it is moving NE at about…

Monday Morning Northland Forecast: 10/7/2024

Another Sunny & Dry Week

If you like the weather today, you will be thrilled with the entire week that’s on the way! While folks in Florida prepare for the onslaught of Hurricane Milton, here in the Northland, we can get ready for 7 days in a row of sunshine, mild temps and reasonable winds. And, that is just one of many reasons I’d rather…

Friday Morning Northland Forecast: 10/4/2024

Saturday Rain May Be On The Way

It’s pretty hard to complain about the weather we have had for the last couple months. For the most part, sunny, warm and a little dry. Yeah, that’s the only negative. If we could’ve sprinkled in an inch of rain about once a week, it would have been perfect! And, that’s why I’m at least cautiously optimistic about tomorrow. After…

Thursday Morning Northland Forecast: 10/3/2024

Frosty Friday On the Way

We had record high temps last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Tomorrow morning, frost is likely across much of the area. Weather is never dull in the Northland! So, we’ve had plenty of heat, and we’ll have a cool start tomorrow morning. The one thing we could really use, is some precipitation, in any form, as continued fire danger is high…

Wednesday Morning Northland Forecast: 10/2/2024

Warm and Windy Wednesday

The weather is finally taking on more of a fall-like feel. After 3 consecutive days of record heat last week, we are now cooling down, and the winds are strong both in front of, and behind a series of cold fronts from the northwest that are moving through the area. That is typical in the springtime, and transitioning from summer…

Monday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/30/2024

Warm & Windy Monday

It looks like today will be the warmest day of the coming week. I’m all for that. We are in the second week of autumn, and it’s about time to cool things down a bit. We had 3 record highs in a row last week, from Thursday through Saturday. At this point, I don’t see us setting any new record…

Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 9/27/2024

Warm Weekend On The Way

It’s the last weekend of September. We are too hot, and we are too dry. Aside from that, it’s been a beautiful week of weather! Each day has been warm, and filled with abundant amounts of sunshine. What’s not to like? But, our average high for today is 62, and we topped out at 84, setting a new high temp…

Friday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/27/2024

A Sunny and Hot Friday

We may be off by a week. I was under the impression the Autumnal Equinox took place last Sunday, like 5 days ago. Yet, this week has clearly still been summer, with sunshine and highs in the upper 70s and lower 80s all week. In fact, we hit a record high temp of 81 degrees yesterday. And, today we are…

Thursday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/26/2024

Sunny Thursday

No matter where you live on this planet, there will be some kind of natural hazard you will have to deal with. Up here, we have thunderstorms, tornadoes, blizzards, snow, ice, heat and cold. In Florida, they don’t have most of those things, but they do have occasional hurricanes some years. Right now, Hurricane Helene is menacingly moving toward Tallahassee,…

Wednesday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/25/2024

Sunny Wednesday

There is rain all the way from southern Ontario to eastern Texas. But not for us. Not today. As we look to the west, all we see is clear skies and sunshine, all the way to the West Coast. It’s beautiful weather, for sure. But, we could sure use about 2.6″ of rain in the next 5 days. I pick…

Tuesday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/24/2024

Sunny Tuesday

It’s raining in southern Ontario. It’s raining in central Iowa. It’s raining in Chicago. It’s raining all around us today. But we remain quite dry. We are between 2.5 and 3.0 inches below where we should be for the month of September. And, I don’t see any rain in the forecast to cut into that deficit in the next week….

Monday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/23/2024

Sunny Monday Forecast

The autumnal equinox arrived at 7:43am on Sunday. And amazingly, it feels like fall today! Last week, we had very warm high temps in the 80s, some 20 degrees above average. This week, now that it’s fall, we will instead have high temps right where they belong, in the mid 60s. They will warm up a little bit by midweek,…

Friday Evening Northland Forecast: 9/20/2024

Last Weekend of Summer

It really has been a nice long summer. Plenty of warm days, and lots of hot days! Nobody could complain that we got a short, cool or wet summer. In fact, just the opposite. We would have liked to have more rain! We are more than an inch short of precip for the year, and more than 2″ short for…

Friday Morning Northland Forecast: 9/20/2024

Final Friday of Summer

It’s the end of the summer as we know it, and I feel fine. The autumnal equinox arrives at 7:43am this Sunday morning, and not a moment too soon. Part of the reason the cold front was so effective in producing severe weather yesterday, is that the airmass in the midwest was so hot and moist that it was just…