The Minnesota Weather Thread (Duluth, Hills: install, summers, road)

[yoyoma02]

Originally Posted by Minnesota Spring

Yes, the models are now switching more toward rain, with temps near 40, so what ever snow does fall will probably melt on contact, at least on the streets etc.

I was kidding. I don't remember anytime in MN that there was a serious snowfall past April 15.

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by yoyoma02

I was kidding. I don't remember anytime in MN that there was a serious snowfall past April 15.

Unfortunately, I do remember snow past April 15. When I was in high school we got about 10" of snow the first week of May, it was gone the next day though, prom was the following weekend and we had leaves on the trees, flowers blooming outside, etc. One year when we lived in Sioux Falls we had 90 degree temps over the weekend and on April 27th (a Thursday) we got a foot of snow. It was all melted by noon on Friday though.

[yoyoma02]

Originally Posted by golfgal

Unfortunately, I do remember snow past April 15. When I was in high school we got about 10" of snow the first week of May, it was gone the next day though, prom was the following weekend and we had leaves on the trees, flowers blooming outside, etc. One year when we lived in Sioux Falls we had 90 degree temps over the weekend and on April 27th (a Thursday) we got a foot of snow. It was all melted by noon on Friday though.

What year was that?!? I could totally see it happening, but I have no memory of snow at the end of April...

[northstar22]

The Sioux Falls area gets some crazy weather, that's for sure.

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by yoyoma02

What year was that?!? I could totally see it happening, but I have no memory of snow at the end of April...

Geeze, when I was living in Duluth last year we got a foot of snow on May 7th. That was weird seeing trees with leaves have snow on em

[yoyoma02]

Originally Posted by knke0204

Geeze, when I was living in Duluth last year we got a foot of snow on May 7th. That was weird seeing trees with leaves have snow on em

I thought it was a nice spring day outside and you were getting sunburnt in mid-March. You got snow up there 2 months later?

Duluth has some crazy weather. I remember I left Minneapolis and it was 90/humid and hot. By the time I got up to Duluth, I needed a winter coat and gloves... and it was September!

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by yoyoma02

I thought it was a nice spring day outside and you were getting sunburnt in mid-March. You got snow up there 2 months later?

Duluth has some crazy weather. I remember I left Minneapolis and it was 90/humid and hot. By the time I got up to Duluth, I needed a winter coat and gloves... and it was September!

Yeah it was really weird. I make this collage thing with photos from each month last year, and the one for March had me on the beach, shirt off and all and then the one for May had snow piles! It's quite weird.

One day in April last year it was snowing and freezing down by the lake and later that day on the hill it was 65 humid and sunny. It's a vey weird feeling.

[light_shimmer]

It's looking pretty icky out there today. Calling for flurries this morning and rain/snow mix tonight. Ish.

[DirtMagurt]

47, overcast and winds @ 25mph gusting to 40.

Truly, this is god's country.

[TimtheGuy]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Gotta question: Do people in Minnesota ***** and complain about the weather a lot? I'm not trying to judge the weather in Minnesota; I'm just asking if complaining about the weather there has become a hobby or a sport like it has in other parts of the country.

The whining here about the weather is constant. It is seemingly either too cold, too hot, too hunid, too dry, too windy...It's like if it is not 69.5 degrees and partly cloudy with a very slight breeze, that it is hard on people. I heard many complaints that the new Twins stadium would not have a roof. People would rather go to the climate controlled Dome, which imo is the ABSOLUTE WORST stadium to go to any event in. It shouldn't even be allowed to play baseball indoors.

I personally like weather extremes. I am going open water fishing tomorrow morning. There is going to be a stout NW wind, an air temp of 31 and good chance of snow flurries. I would not be surprised if we are the only boat out on the lake.

It is funny how people in all kinds of states talk about how 'crazy' there weather is. I lived in Spearfish, SD for 3 years and even I would say the weather there is pretty wild:

Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest temperature change. On January 22, 1943 at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was -4° degrees F. The chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45°F above zero. The 49-degree rise in two minutes set a world record that still holds. By 9:00 a.m., the temperature had risen to 54°F. Suddenly, the chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to -4°F The 58-degree drop took only 27 minutes.

One time it snowed 5-6ft. in one snowstorm down the road in Deadwood/Lead. Another time Deadwood/Lead got a foot of hail. They actually got the snowplows out to remove it from the road.