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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Paul Huttner

Minnesota’s September preview, tropical trouble brewing in Gulf?

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This is how Minnesota's weather should be. In mid-September.

A cool refreshing Canadian air mass blows into Minnesota today on fresh northwest breezes. If you like the windows open and good sleeping weather this is your week.

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Northwest flow

We call it northwest flow. This weather pattern favors dry northwest breezes. Dew points in the 50s and 40s are blowing (advecting) into Minnesota on fresh northwest breezes today. Our inbound air mass is ideal for human comfort. I've overlaid streamlines and dew points over the GOES 1 km visible image below.

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NOAA data via College of Dupage

The maps keep us in northwest flow this week. A ripple coming through Wednesday night may drive a few light showers.

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NOAA GFS model via tropical tidbits.

Highs the next few days across most of Minnesota favor the low to mid-70s. That's more typical for mid-September folks. Next weekend looks considerably wetter and cooler than last weekend.

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NOAA via Weather Bell

Tropical threat for Texas coast Friday?

The remnants of Harvey appear to be ready to blossom again in the Gulf of Mexico. Conditions look favorable for development. Several models bring a threat to the Texas coast by Friday.

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Mike's Weather Page

Here's the latest GFS run. A strengthening hurricane on the Texas coast by Friday?

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NOAA GFS via tropical tidbits.

Trump disbands NCA advisory board

Here's more from The Washington Post on the latest climate unfriendly moves by the Trump administration.

Energy and Environment

The Trump administration just disbanded a federal advisory committee on climate change

By Juliet Eilperin August 20

President Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord in the Rose Garden of the White House in June. (AP)

The Trump administration has decided to disband the federal advisory panel for the National Climate Assessment, a group aimed at helping policymakers and private-sector officials incorporate the government’s climate analysis into long-term planning.

The charter for the 15-person Advisory Committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment — which includes academics as well as local officials and corporate representatives — expires Sunday. On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s acting administrator, Ben Friedman, informed the committee’s chair that the agency would not renew the panel.

The National Climate Assessment is supposed to be issued every four years but has come out only three times since passage of the 1990 law calling for such analysis. The next one, due for release in 2018, already has become a contentious issue for the Trump administration.

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