What's up with this weather? (trees, metro, humid)

[Minnesota_Love]

Originally Posted by bkenneth

I'm from Bend, Oregon and we have had light snow showers just about every night for weeks and I don't thing we've reached above 60 just as long. And once our Summer hits...(mid-end June? or July), it's all over by October.
Bend's 10 Day forecast: 10 Day Weather Forecast for Bend, OR (97701) - weather.com=

LOL, ok I'll stop complaining about Duluth.

10 Day Weather Forecast for Duluth, MN - weather.com=

[Minnesota Spring]

94F with a dew point of 66 here. I am wilting in the heat and humidity!!!!!!

[roneb]

Originally Posted by bkenneth

I'm from Bend, Oregon and we have had light snow showers just about every night for weeks and I don't thing we've reached above 60 just as long. And once our Summer hits...(mid-end June? or July), it's all over by October.
Bend's 10 Day forecast: 10 Day Weather Forecast for Bend, OR (97701) - weather.com=

I guess I must be strange, I love the weather in both Bend AND Duluth!

[northstar22]

Originally Posted by roneb

I guess I must be strange, I love the weather in both Bend AND Duluth!

Me too.

95 degrees?!?! In May? This heat and humidity is killing me!

[NewToNoMi]

I should be used to these kinds of temperatures considering it's all you ever see in southern Indiana around this time of the year. When I lived here while going to college at the U, I didn't see many days above 90, so I know I shouldn't complain, but I've never felt it this early in the year up here.

Sadly, I live in an old building (built in the early 1900s), and almost all of the windows can't be open (sealed shut). The only one that can be open has an A/C that can't cool down the entire place. It's hot as you-know-where in here at the moment.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Minnesota Spring

94F with a dew point of 66 here. I am wilting in the heat and humidity!!!!!!

Let's look that up on the Heat/Feel Index.

95 degrees/50% humidity==feels like 107
95 degrees/60% humidity==feels like 114
95 degrees/70% humidity==feels like 124
95 degrees/80% humidity==feels like 136

Source: People's Almanac/Metereology

Sympathies from the dry desert!

[mnmike]

94 with a dewpoint of 66 isn't on the scale you posted there...94 with a dewpoint of 66=relative humidty of 40%, which makes the heat index 97. Its when those dewpoints get into the 70s that the "heat index" really starts climbing. The dewpoints are only around 50 today...nice and dry

Dewpoints are really a better measure of how humid it feels, as they aren't on a sliding scale like humdity. For example...if it's 100 degrees with a dewpoint of 70, the humidity would only be 38%, which doesn't sound humid...but actually it would feel really humid. If it were 80 degrees with a dewpoint of 53, the humidity would also be 38% it would feel dry and comfortable. Better to look at the dewpoint to gage how sticky it will feel.

Sorry, big weather nerd here, and the whole dewpoint vs humidity thing and people's understanding of it is a pet peeve. Most people just don't understand what humidity means...and say things like "it was 95 with 95% humidity"..I know they are exaggerating, but it drives me nuts, because in order for that to be true it would have to be 95 with a dewpoint of 94, which really doesn't happen anywhere in the world I am a dork

[Minnesota Spring]

Originally Posted by mnmike

94 with a dewpoint of 66 isn't on the scale you posted there...94 with a dewpoint of 66=relative humidty of 40%, which makes the heat index 97. Its when those dewpoints get into the 70s that the "heat index" really starts climbing. The dewpoints are only around 50 today...nice and dry

Dewpoints are really a better measure of how humid it feels, as they aren't on a sliding scale like humdity. For example...if it's 100 degrees with a dewpoint of 70, the humidity would only be 38%, which doesn't sound humid...but actually it would feel really humid. If it were 80 degrees with a dewpoint of 53, the humidity would also be 38% it would feel dry and comfortable. Better to look at the dewpoint to gage how sticky it will feel.

Sorry, big weather nerd here, and the whole dewpoint vs humidity thing and people's understanding of it is a pet peeve. Most people just don't understand what humidity means...and say things like "it was 95 with 95% humidity"..I know they are exaggerating, but it drives me nuts, because in order for that to be true it would have to be 95 with a dewpoint of 94, which really doesn't happen anywhere in the world I am a dork

Me to!!!
Nice today. 80F, sunny, dew point of 47F!

[marmac]

Originally Posted by tijlover

Doesn't anyone read the paper every day, listing the all-time high's and low's
for every particular day? Or are you too scared to look?

It's the best way to put things into perspective. I do it everyday for my own city.

I lived in MN for 43 years, and I recall one Memorial Day weekend of seeing snow flurries, but no accumulation. Melted on impact. But still..............

And I was not living in Northern MN either, south central rather.

Today is the 26th and Dave Dahl said gardeners have no more worry about frost cuz there never was a frost recorded in the metro this late.

Snow might fall, but I doubt it.

[golfgal]

Spring 2010 - Second Warmest on Record in Twin Cities

It was a very warm spring in the Twin Cities, and across much of the region, because of several stretches of days with above normal temperatures.

Here is the preliminary ranking for warmest average temperature during meteorological spring (March through May). The spring of 2010 appears to be the second warmest on record since 1871.

Spring 2010 - Second Warmest on Record in Twin Cities