The Minnesota Weather Thread (Minneapolis, Bloomington: quality, how to, definition)

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by Glenfield

Not enough hot weather and too short. What we have been having for the past week or so is not summer weather. And, yes, I know we have cool days in the summer but I do not recall a long streak of days this early where the highs are in the 60s and 70s. Fall is supposed to start mid-September not mid-August.

Global "warming" haha.

[Tyryztoll]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

Global "warming" haha.

What a crock. Did you see the thread the guy started in the MSP forum asking if he should move to the southern TC burbs because he's sick of the winters in Duluth? As if the winters are so much better a whole 2 hours south? Oh there's a urban heat island....so it'll be -15 in Apple Valley while it's -20 in Duluth. That's some serious relief!

Apparently the NOAA weather radar in Chanhassen is down for maintenance all month. Been trying to track all this rain on my Radar Scope app but have had to use the Sioux Falls, SD and Duluth radars that stretch close to our metro. How can there not be a backup weather radar in a major metropolitan area like ours?

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by Tyryztoll

What a crock. Did you see the thread the guy started in the MSP forum asking if he should move to the southern TC burbs because he's sick of the winters in Duluth? As if the winters are so much better a whole 2 hours south? Oh there's a urban heat island....so it'll be -15 in Apple Valley while it's -20 in?

Greatest ponzi scheme ever concocted.

[Kavalier]

I think they just said on 9 this is the wetest year on record (and counting...)

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

I think they just said on 9 this is the wetest year on record (and counting...)

Last year this same week or so we also had a week straight of rain. I couldn’t cut lawns so I took a sightseeing trip to Hurley, WI and saw the flooding.

[Kavalier]

Not sure if it was the rainiest month or Summer or year, just that we had surpassed one of them.

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

Not sure if it was the rainiest month or Summer or year, just that we had surpassed one of them.

It's already summer, and we were a few inches from year about 2 weeks ago. It's rained almost everyday since then, so maybe already set year record?

[2x3x29x41]

Yet another Flood Warning in Northfield. Second one in less than a month.

The river was never really low this year. It was high much of the spring/summer/fall, dropping a few times to a moderate flow. It used to be that spring melts would occasionally cause flooding, but that was it. In the last decade, flooding from September on has become a periodic thing.

No surprise, I suppose - this is the wettest Minnesota year on record, coming at the end of the wettest decade on record, and it is the southeastern part of the state that is disproportionately getting wetter.

[Kavalier]

Originally Posted by wamer27

It's already summer, and we were a few inches from year about 2 weeks ago. It's rained almost everyday since then, so maybe already set year record?

And I planted near 10 tomato plants and ate a grand total of about a dozen tomatoes off those plants this year.

[jfn111]

Originally Posted by Kavalier

And I planted near 10 tomato plants and ate a grand total of about a dozen tomatoes off those plants this year.

We planted 5 tomato plants, we live in Bloomington, and had tomatoes coming out of our ears. Other than chasing off the squirrels we had the best crop we've ever had.