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Weather Weirding
"This just feels weird." -Overheard at the Cub checkout line today.
This may be 'your kind of weird' weather, but it's highly unusual weather for early November. Temperatures Friday shot into the lower 70s across southwest Minnesota. Just to sanity check, Friday's average high for the Twin Cities? 48 degrees. Temperatures ran more than 20 degrees above average Friday across southern Minnesota.
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The unseasonably warm bubble of air covers most of the USA.
Temperatures across North American and the Arctic continue to run freakishly warm. The 5-day temperature forecast from the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer project cranks out temps +20 vs. average in Minnesota and +30 in the Arctic.
North Shore Chinook
The temperature in Two Harbors hit 72 degrees Friday afternoon.
Down-slope breezes blowing down the hill toward the lake create additional 'adiabatic warming' similar to the Chinook winds in the lee slopes of the Rockies. Call it the North Shore Mini-Chinook.
Warm November breeze
High pressure to our east pumps southerly breezes into Minnesota again this weekend.
High temperatures this weekend will push the 70 degree mark once again in southwest Minnesota. The Twin Cities may nudge 70 degrees Saturday afternoon.
Other than a slight chance of showers Monday, our weather looks beautiful right into Election Day and beyond.
Roses continue to bloom at the Weather Lab in November.
At this rate it's going to be a short winter.