Leaves seen falling from Front yard ash Oct 5th 2011 on a very warm sunny October day A Very warm almost hot October day occurred today, under brilliant sunshine, highs on the backside of a high pressure system rose to the mid to upper 80s, many places were near 90.F today, which is downright unheard …
Author: Derek McKay
Fall Color Report #5
Fall Color Report 2011 The very mild weather this week has made a significant progress in our fall color season, a significant jump can be seen in our map compared to last week. All areas are reporting High color, with places like Austin and Fontenac reporting peak color, meaning all areas have at least 75% color …
Very warm and mild week ahead, 80s with sunshine for 1st week in October!
Regional Weather View. A strong high pressure will give the gift of with a very warm and earily quite for the 1st part of October, It will likely be wall to wall sunshine for the next 4 days at least, tempetures region wide will be in the 70s to 80s, with really no precip to be found. Metro …
Fall Color Report #4
Fall Color report #4 Fall color has picked up quite a bit more compared to last weekend, but it was slowed down quite a bit last week by cool wet and windy weather. Earlier changing trees like Ash, some Maples, and Sumacs are now reaching peak in their color. Across the area Moderate color is being seen …
NW Wisconsin Weather is now SE Minnesota Weather.
I’ve noticed that quite a bit of viewers are having troble finding my new blog becuase I’ve switched my blogs web address. So to hopfully help out I’ve made this post to let viewers know I’m still out there, I’m just at a new blog address! As many people know my blog has been changes to cover Southeastern Minnesota. So …
September 29th sigificant wind event-widespread 45-50MPH winds reported! Minor damage reported as well.
Image from Twin Cities NWS A strong low pressure system produced widespread 45 to 50MPH winds which caused minor tree damage in what ended out to be a pretty significant wind event. A strong, tight low pressure over Michigan brought these very strong winds to much of the Upper Midwest. The low in this image …
Strong cold front pasing through, Cooler sunny with strong winds possibly gusting to 45MPH Thursday, Cool but sunny weekend. Updated #1
Regional Weather View. Attention in the Upper Midwest is turned to a strong low pressure system and cold front which will cause strong winds to blow through Thursday. Winds could gust to 50MPH in parts of Northeast Iowa, Eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, behind the front that will also bring in much cooler air …
Rainfall totals September 26th. Very beneficial 1+ values reported in some areas, others areas got far less.
Soggy conditions September 26th 2011 Monday was a soggy, blustery and cool day for much of the area, as a low pressure system was passing through. What is interesting about this system is that it is a cut off low pressure system, so it is actually moving in an usually Westerly direction, instead of the …
Fall Color Report #3
Fall color report #3 September 24th 2011 Fall color is really starting to increase across the area this week with the cool and cloudy days we’ve had. All areas accept for Austin are reporting “low color” with at least 20% to 35% color. Austin it’s self is still reporting slight less then 19% color. Most …
A bit sunnier for Saturday, the long lasting showery & cool condtions from backtracking low for Sun through Tues.
Regional Weather View. A cool wet fall like pattern will be setting up for the 1st week of the fall season. A backtracking low pressure system will edge back towards the region and cool, cloudy and showery conditions to parts of Minnesota Iowa, and most of Wisconsin and Illinois. Western Minnesota and Iowa as well …