Sept-tober breeze brings gale warnings and wind chill
I had a bad dream last night.
I dreamed I went to sleep in summer and woke up in October this morning. Wait a minute. That really happened. That's how fast our weather can change in Minnesota in September.
Here's the proof of our nearly 20 degree temp plunge at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, from 73 degrees with a sticky summer-like dew point of 63 at 8 p.m. last night to 54 degrees under a gray ragged misty sky and raw north wind gusting to 25 miles per hour at 7 am this morning.
How lovely.
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What a difference a day makes in Duluth and along the North Shore. Check out the before and after images from yesterday morning to this morning along Duluth harbor from the Lake Superior Maritime Museum web cam.
Gale warnings remain up for western Lake Superior today.
BAYFIELD TO OAK POINT WI-GRAND PORTAGE TO GRAND MARAIS MN-GRAND MARAIS TO TACONITE HARBOR MN-TACONITE HARBOR TO SILVER BAY HARBOR MN-SILVER BAY HARBOR TO TWO HARBORS MN-TWO HARBORS TO DULUTH MN-DULUTH MN TO PORT WING WI-PORT WING TO SAND ISLAND WI-SAND ISLAND TO BAYFIELD WI-OAK POINT TO SAXON HARBOR WI-
312 AM CDT WED SEP 10 2014
...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
* WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTHEAST WIND OF 25 TO 35 KNOTS WILL GRADUALLY BACK TO THE NORTH LATE TODAY...AND GRADUALLY WEAKEN TONIGHT.
* WIND GUSTS...GALE FORCE GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 KNOTS.
* WAVES/SEAS...WAVE HEIGHTS WILL INCREASE TO 8 TO 10 FEET ALONG THE NORTH SHORE...AND 10 TO 14 FEET ALONG PARTS OF THE SOUTH SHORE. THE WAVES WILL SLOWLY SUBSIDE LATE TODAY AND THURSDAY.
Rain tapers today, chill lingers
Here's a look at our departing low pressure system and the chilly October-like Canadian high pressure cell sliding southward from western Canada.
October temperature levels hold this week. A slow warming trend kicks in starting this weekend.
Temperatures bottom out Saturday morning, when temps will dip into the 30s across a good chunk of real estate in the Upper Midwest. The Twin Cities metro core will likely escape any frost threat this time.
Summer, the sequel in late September?
The longer range pattern trends suggest we may see a return to more summer like temperatures in late September. Signs point to a strong storm taking aim at the north pacific, which could favor a milder flow across the Upper Midwest later this month.
Here's the 16-day (wishcast) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Forecast System, which cranks out some pretty nice temperatures starting late next week.
Stay tuned.