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The calendar says its December 26th...

#1 Postby RL3AO » Mon Dec 26, 2011 4:50 pm

...but the thermometer disagrees.

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#2 Postby Ntxw » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:16 pm

I thought La Nina was supposed to bring the upper midwest/northern plains cold and snow? The Dakotas/MN set record highs today jesus...

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RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA/GRAND FORKS
303 PM CST MON DEC 26 2011

...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES SET SUNDAY AT THE UND/GRAND FORKS NWS
CLIMATE STATION...FARGO HECTOR FIELD AND GRAND FORKS AIRPORT...

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 49 DEGREES WAS SET AT UND/GRAND FORKS
NWS CLIMATE STATION TODAY...DECEMBER 26TH. THIS BREAKS THE OLD
RECORD OF 42 SET IN 1994.

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 51 DEGREES WAS SET AT FARGO HECTOR
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY...DECEMBER 26TH. THIS BREAKS THE OLD
RECORD OF 45 SET IN 1959.

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 47 DEGREES WAS SET AT GRAND FORKS
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TODAY...DECEMBER 26TH. THIS BREAKS THE OLD
RECORD OF 42 SET IN 2006.


Record High Temperature set at Duluth Today

The temperature at Duluth reached 43 degrees this afternoon at 12:58 pm. This breaks the record high temperature for this date of 42 degrees set in 1908 and 1877.


PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
409 PM CST MON DEC 26 2011

...TODAYS MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES AND WIND GUST REPORTS FROM CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA...AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

DAILY RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES WERE SET AT MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. CLOUD.

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 244 PM DEC 26 52 F
PREVIOUS RECORD: 51 F SET IN 1936

ST. CLOUD 304 PM DEC 26 49 F
PREVIOUS RECORD: 48 F SET IN 1905
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#3 Postby RL3AO » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:42 pm

The current pattern is much more El Nino like right now even though its officially La Nina.
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#4 Postby Extratropical94 » Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:36 am

Well, not every year can be like the one before.
High 40s on Christmas here, everything is green, total snow since November is .4 inches which more or less came down as sleet.
We had 6 nights with below-freezing temperatures so far. Last year (Oct-Dec 2010) we had already seen 26 inches, 51 freezy nights and almost a whole month of temperatures < 0C, even during daytime.
For example, the first week of December 2010 had an average temperature of -4.8 C, the first week of Dec 2011 was +6.3C, that's 11 degrees centigrade or 20F higher than last year. :(
Stupid NAO is bringing the warm west winds here and there is really NO sign that this pattern will change in the upcoming months.
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Re: The calendar says its December 26th...

#5 Postby brunota2003 » Fri Dec 30, 2011 6:29 pm

From Buffalo NWS AFD:

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.CLIMATE...
THROUGH DECEMBER 29TH TOTAL SNOWFALL TO START THE 2011-12 SEASON
ARE:

BUFFALO     3.8 INCHES
ROCHESTER   5.2 INCHES

WITH THIS NEAR RECORD LOW SNOWFALL THUS FAR FOR THE WINTER OF
2011-12 WE COMPARED OTHER SUCH SLOW STARTS TO WINTERS TO THEIR
ANNUAL SNOWFALL TOTALS. THE 30-YEAR NORMALS PLACE DECEMBER AS THE
SNOWIEST MONTH IN BUFFALO...AND JANUARY FOR ROCHESTER. THE TABLE
BELOW CONTAINS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF SNOW TO START THE WINTER SEASON
THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR...ALONG WITH THE RESPECTIVE ANNUAL (JULY
THROUGH JUNE) SNOWFALL TOTAL.

BUFFALO

RANK    YEAR     SNOW FALL    ANNUAL TOTAL
                  THROUGH      (INCHES)
                END OF YEAR
                 (INCHES)

  1     1896        3.6         50.2
  2     1931        3.8         49.6
  3     1918        5.8         25.0
  4     1923        6.4         46.7
  5     1888        7.0         67.3
  6     1891        8.0         80.9
  7     1948        8.2         40.1
  8     1994        8.7         74.6
  9     1889        9.1         22.4
 10     1939        9.2         83.6



***NORMAL THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR: 36.2***
***1981-2010 CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMAL ANNUAL TOTAL IS 94.7***


ROCHESTER

RANK    YEAR     SNOW FALL    ANNUAL TOTAL
                  THROUGH      (INCHES)
                END OF YEAR
                 (INCHES)

  1     1939        2.7         54.5
  2     2006        5.2         107.2
  3     1931        5.9         75.7
  4     1941        6.1         66.3
  5     2001        7.2         58.1
  6     1952        7.5         41.7
  7     1940        7.9         73.7
  8     1932        9.1         29.2
  9     1998        10.2        111.6
 10     1943        10.3        46.1

***NORMAL THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR: 29.2***
***1981-2010 CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMAL ANNUAL TOTAL IS 99.5***

SNOWFALL RECORDS GO BACK TO THE WINTER OF 1884-85.
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#6 Postby RL3AO » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:29 am

Finally got below zero for the first time.

Looked like MSP was going to break the record for latest first sub-zero with the only record on January 18th but it got to -1 at 11:53 last night so I think it will go down as a tie.

-11 with WCs near -30 sure is a shock when we've hit 50 this month.
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