Wet now, drier pattern emerges by this weekend
Hang in there. I can see a drier light at the end of our perpetually soggy weather tunnel.
But for now, many Minnesota towns have joined the multi-inch rainfall club once again in the past 48 hours.
Our sump pump-symphony continues this week. A stalled stationary front over southern Minnesota continues to deliver random downpours through Wednesday.
The Twin Cities NWS has trimmed back the flood watch and dropped the northwest half of the metro. As the system has shifted slightly south, flood watches have been expanded to include most of Wisconsin and parts of Iowa.
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FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
250 PM CDT TUE SEP 6 2016
...HEAVIEST RAINFALL REMAINS IN FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT...
ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND INTO PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED SOUTHWARD WHICH HAS ALLOWED FOR A PART OF THE FLOOD WATCH TO BE
CANCELLED. THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ST. JAMES TO ST. PAUL MINNESOTA...NORTHEAST TO RICE LAKE WISCONSIN. THIS AREA OF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY SHIFT NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT...BUT THE BULK OF THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL LIKELY
CONTINUE ALONG AND NEAR THE IOWA AND MINNESOTA BORDER THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
MOST LOCATIONS IN THE WATCH AREA WILL RECEIVE 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN BUT LOCALIZED AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE. THIS RAINFALL COULD LEAD TO FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...URBAN AREAS...AND ALONG RIVERS.
Pattern change: Drier forecast starting this weekend?
As meteorologists we like to see consistency between multiple model runs. My confidence is growing that we'll transition into a drier west-northwest flow across Minnesota and the Upper Midwest starting this weekend and lasting through most of next week.
NOAA's GFS model 16-day output is basically void of any rainfall for MSP from Saturday through most of next week.
New York Times: Climate Change Editor position
Is climate change "the most important story in the world?" The New York Times thinks so. That's why they've just upped the ante on national climate change coverage with this job posting for a climate change editor.
The New York Times is a leader in covering climate change. Now The Times is ramping up its coverage to make the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible to a huge audience around the globe.
We are looking for an editor to lead this dynamic new group. We want someone with an entrepreneurial streak who is obsessed with finding new ways to connect with readers and new ways to tell this vital story.
The coverage should encompass: the science of climate change; the politics of climate debates; the technological race to find solutions; the economic consequences of climate change; and profiles of fascinating characters enmeshed in the issues.
The coverage should include journalism in a variety of formats: video, photography, newsletters, features, podcasts, conferences and more. The unit should make strategic decisions about which forms are top priorities and which are not.
This is refreshing to see in a national media landscape that still amazingly lacks focus and organization on reporting climate change science and impacts.
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Three and a half years ago a meteorologist concerned about the growing impacts of the developing story of climate change science at MPR pitched a concept called Climate Cast to his Program Director. The PD, Steve Nelson saw the potential and worked to make MPR’s Climate Cast a reality. MPR's Climate Cast has been the only regular weekly climate change science radio program in the nation for 3+ years. During that time we have established a brand within the climate science community, an excellent reputation with top level climate scientists like Michael Mann, Kevin Trenberth, Ben Santer, Katharine Hayhoe, and Richard Alley to name just a few. They have all been willing and repeat guests on Climate Cast, and have given our listeners rare insight into evolving climate change and impacts.
As one of few broadcast meteorologists to be an early adopter providing climate change science content in my weather broadcasts, I am happy to see a major media organization like the New York Times recognize the magnitude of the evolving story that climate change represents.