Minnesota Tempreatrures Extremes (Duluth, Roseau, Dakota: winter, patios, year)

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by rcsteiner

You have no idea how jealous I am...

I am hoping it is a hard enough freeze to kill off the pollen Allergies have been awful this year.

[Minnesota Spring]

Originally Posted by golfgal

I am hoping it is a hard enough freeze to kill off the pollen Allergies have been awful this year.

Me too! I don't think the freeze warning starts until tomorrow (Wed) night though to be precise. I don't think it will fix the allergy situation if it does freeze. It usually takes temps of 25 or lower to fix that problem it seems

[golfgal]

As someone else just reminded me, this is not a good thing for farmers--if the freeze is too hard, they will lose their crops .

[sholomar]

MN probably has the most extreme temps overall then any state in the US. Can get to 100 in the summer and down to -40 in the winter.

Never lived in a climate where temps go all over in the winter, always live in areas that have 'cold' winters relatively speaking. Having it go from 75 down to 25 and getting an ice storm would be... fun! But having months and months of 90's and 100's high humidity or not, would not be so fun.


Looking at this map which is not really accurate just a general measure to find where the most extreme summer heat waves occur (it's actually some global warming doom map.. I'd love to see a milder US climate honestly)

http://media.trb.com/media/photo/201...0-29142527.png

the sweet spot for living would be eastern IN, western PN, and along the east coast. No familiarity with that area though. With a steady decent job that's not all that hard and pays more then most jobs where you work for someone else that are in manufacturing, I just don't want to leave however. The best I can hope for is to transfer to another 3M plant, when I hit 5 years seniority. I have a few in mind.

I'd love to live on the eastern side of Lake Michigan, around Ludington. Nice lake effect snow events, big beaches, relatively mild winters.

[Azul91]

I can't wait. I love winters, although I prefer fall. Anything over this humidity we've had.

[Minnesota Spring]

Originally Posted by golfgal

As someone else just reminded me, this is not a good thing for farmers--if the freeze is too hard, they will lose their crops .

This is very true. With the massive crop death in Texas and OK and the freezing of crops up here, it makes me wounder what will become of our future grocery bills

[snofarmer]

Like what? oranges & grapefruit?

At this point most crops have grown and are waiting to be harvested.
It'll have little to no effect on corn, potatoes, alpha, wheat, hay, or soy.

yea, the home gardener will have to cover up the tomatoes but most everything else can take a light frost.

Originally Posted by golfgal

As someone else just reminded me, this is not a good thing for farmers--if the freeze is too hard, they will lose their crops .

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by snofarmer

Like what? oranges & grapefruit?

At this point most crops have grown and are waiting to be harvested.
It'll have little to no effect on corn, potatoes, alpha, wheat, hay, or soy.

yea, the home gardener will have to cover up the tomatoes but most everything else can take a light frost.

Sure a light frost but they are talking about a hard freeze, quite different...

[snofarmer]

FREEZE WARNING
in effect until Thursday, Sep 15, 8:00 AM





...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY... ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. A FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 8 AM CDT THURSDAY.
* TEMPERATURES: TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE MID TO UPPER 20S ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT...EXCEPT NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR.
* IMPACTS: SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS AND OTHER VEGETATION WILL BE DAMAGED IF LEFT UNCOVERED.


Northern MN,



You could be right as I forgot the crops are a little behind in reaching maturity this year. but this shouldn't effect much of the corn belt

Late Season - If a killing frost occurs before grain fill is complete, yield potential and quality could be affected. A killing frost can occur when the temperature in the crop canopy drops from 32F to 28F for a short time (5-10 minutes) or if the canopy temperature stays at 32F for 4 to 5 hours. This is adequate to kill the entire plant. A lighter frost of 30-32F lasting an hour or two, could kill leaves but not the stalk or ear shank. When only a portion of the leaves are killed, those not killed can continue to function and contribute to grain yield if good growing conditions follow frost.

Originally Posted by golfgal

Sure a light frost but they are talking about a hard freeze, quite different...

[DmaxDiesel]

I'll take the dirty south heat & humidity over this crap any day!! I'd rather it be absolutely freezing cold than this 50 degree ***** though, working outside (own a landscape company) is terrible, you're constantly going from cold to sweating to then freezing your a$$ off....south FL is calling my name!