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Football weather, Indian Summer and a Halloween chill?
Minnesota weather is like lying on a beach at the ocean. You never know what the next wave will wash in. You may be blissfully sunning at low tide, and swamped in pounding surf at high tide. Air masses sweep freely across Minnesota in October. Sunny and 72 one day. Steel gray skies with a raw northwest wind…
Watch it live: Gonzalo slams Bermuda
"Dangerous damaging and life-threatening." That's how NOAA's National Hurricane Center describes Hurricane Gonzalo as it puts a direct hit on Bermuda. The storm is packing sustained 125 mph winds just before landfall.
NOAA Winter Outlook: Partly mild for Minnesota?
NOAA's Winter Outlook is in for the coming cold season. The odds still favor a developing El Nino, but NOAA is pulling it's punches on fully committing to a mild winter for the Upper Midwest.
Best day of fall 2014?
After a cool football weather weekend, temps begin to slowly moderate again next week. Another shot of Indian summer by next Friday?
Pushing 70 Thursday, hints of a Halloween chill?
Indian Summer is on it’s way Cool at night – and hot all day Ain’t no black clouds filled with rain Santa Ana wind blew them all to Maine -Poco “Indian Summer” Indian Summer 2014 The name Indian Summer conjurers up thoughts of sunny warm days and crisp starry nights. For just a few fleeting October…
A perfect recipe for fall colors?
This may be the perfect year for vibrant fall colors around the Twin Cities metro. This week the fall color "Ring of Fire" is closing in on the Twin Cities.
Tropical Trouble: Four storms you should know about
It’s been a rough few days in the tropics. An especially quiet Atlantic hurricane season is finally heating up a bit. Here’s a rundown on four storms you should know about in the tropics. Tropical Storm Gonzalo: Gonzalo is winding up near Puerto Rico today and expected to become a hurricane in the next 24…