AMAZING temperature differential (warm, cities, degree, cloud)

[tvdxer]

At 7 pm:

37F in Duluth, MN
95F in Minneapolis, MN

The two cities are only about 140 miles apart - a two-hour drive on I-35. Wow!

[Jammie]

OMG, that is amazing!!!!

We have strange weather differentials like that here, too, but I don't remember it ever being that much of a span.

[bjh]

Weird

[susancruzs]

Wow and I thought 20 degrees between TR and Manitowoc, 7 miles, was alot! Holy cow!

Also means our warm temps are short lived, I'm sure!

[marmac]

I don't think you are comparing apples to oranges as you are comparing the low this morning in Duluth with the high today in Minneapolis.

Yesterday ( at the same time of the day) Minneapolis was in the 90's and Cambridge ( 55 miles away ) was 67.

[marmac]

actually, tvdxer is correct ---------by Lake Superior

(from the Duluth News Tribune )-------" head down to the Lake Superior waterfront today where the 3PM Sky Harbor Airport was a brisk 45 degrees"
" Want it warmer ? At the same time the temperature at the Duluth International Airport was 87"

I apologize for my earlier post, as the temp swing was over 40 degrees just between the 2 airports in Duluth based on their proximaty to Lake Superior,

[susancruzs]

That's the way it is here, sometimes they use Manitowoc airport and it rarely applies to Two Rivers! I get my temps from a website "Cooler Near the Lake", its great! The local news always breaks it down, but on the net it varies.

Living in NE Illinois, I always paid attention to Kenosha weather rather than local forecasts that gave temps at O'Hare!

[Westerner92]

I remember seeing that on the weather maps. Duluth was colored dark blue and Minneapolis was a bright pink on the temperature map. That must have been one strong front.

[Tennesseestorm]

That was strange and I noticed that as well.

Even this morning (Wednesday) it was like in the lower 70s in southern Minnesota and it was in the 40s in northern Minnesota and it was in the 50s well south of Minnesota.

[GraniteStater]

The weather has been very unusual for MN. I noticed yesterday that the St. Cloud airport reported blowing dust and low visibilities. I guess the airport is surrounded by cornfields?