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Sven Sundgaard
Nov 27, 20222 min read
TUESDAY SNOW UPDATE
We're still on track to receive some fresh snow but the track and amounts are anything but settled yet. As we now are closer to the...
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Sven Sundgaard
Nov 26, 20222 min read
TUES.-WED. STORM UPDATE
November is going out like a lion or at least like winter! The models continue to narrow in on a swath of snow tracking through...
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Sven Sundgaard
Nov 25, 20223 min read
Fall going out with a bang?
Fall 2022 will end quite mild, at nearly 2 degrees above normal but we have certainly had some snow and at least short bursts of cold....
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Sven Sundgaard
Nov 18, 20224 min read
Winter Preview
It may yet be meteorological fall but we know better in Minnesota than to always wait until December 1, let alone to wait until the...
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Sven Sundgaard
Oct 27, 20225 min read
Searching for winter
Winter. You either love it or hate it or… you’re just fine with it taking its time. For meteorologists and climate watchers it’s another...
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Sven Sundgaard
Oct 19, 20223 min read
Sunday night stormy soaker?
I’ve written about persistence forecasting before: that is, throw away the models and when you haven’t had rain a long time… don’t...
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Sven Sundgaard
Oct 14, 20222 min read
It snowed early, what’s that mean for winter?
We got the first measurable snowfall out of the way and this year, it came early. On average, we see the first measurable snowfall...
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Sven Sundgaard
Sep 30, 20224 min read
Record dry, very warm September
September is ending much the way it began and persisted: warm and dry. If not for the recent cool blast, we’d have had an even more...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 28, 20222 min read
EVENING STORMS POSSIBLE
ANOTHER round of storms is possible Sunday evening into the overnight. Currently (as of 12pm Sunday) we still have A LOT of low clouds...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 26, 20224 min read
'Triple dip La Nina' and what it could mean for winter?
Double dipping is a social faux pas at any party but can you imagine a triple dipper? That’s what we have going on this year with La...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 24, 20223 min read
Measuring the 1,000 year floods
I discussed ‘mega-rainfalls’ (defined by 6 to 8+ inches over a 1,000+ square mile area) a few weeks ago and they just keep coming for...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 17, 20221 min read
Northern lights?
Northern lights visible Wednesday night? A coronal mass ejection (CME) left the sun and reached earth Tuesday night. It’s a recipe for...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 5, 20223 min read
‘Mega’-rains on the increase
Catastrophic flooding has been making the headlines to our south recently from Missouri through Kentucky- where up to a foot of rain has...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 1, 20223 min read
July 2022 Recap
Well no shocker, it was a warmer than normal month of July. We ended the month +2.0° F above normal. That’s using the modern (1991-2020)...
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Sven Sundgaard
Aug 1, 20223 min read
Tornadoes that changed Minnesota
(Sauk Rapids/ St. Cloud tornado, 1886: TPT/PBS Twin Cities) Minnesota sits on the northern edge of some of the planet’s most intense and...
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Sven Sundgaard
Jul 21, 20226 min read
Deciphering the dust bowl
July 1936 was the hottest July ever recorded in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota. In the July 10-14th, 1936 heat wave an estimated...
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Sven Sundgaard
Apr 27, 20226 min read
the final blow of the polar vortex
You hear about the polar vortex every so often and it's namesake is used to refer to any cold, nasty winter weather but the the polar...
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Sven Sundgaard
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Up North: the spring that isn't
We all have started to complain about the cold and snowy spring but in the southern half of the state it's nowhere near as bad as...
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Sven Sundgaard
Apr 19, 20221 min read
Windier than usual?
Many have asked: "Is it windier than usual?" .... YES, it has been. April has been averaging wind speeds near 13 mph, up from the average...
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Sven Sundgaard
Mar 23, 20223 min read
Impact of a Wet March on the Drought?
March has already been a wet month and we might have another storm yet before we head into April but how much has this moisture impacted...
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