Severe Weather Risk on Sat 8/22

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Hello-

Thanks for checking in.  There’s been a lot of chatter about the Severe Weather Risk for Tomorrow (Saturday 8/22/15), and for good reason–it seems like it could be an active day.  The NAM & GFS seem to have a good handle on it, and soon, some of the short term high-res models will be coming into play. For the sake of highlighting the event, I am taking a look at the NAM below–and giving a brief and to the point overview.  Many other factors come into play, and other models/data etc, but for the sake of simplicity here, I am just showing one. Read more

August 2015

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Hello all–

Are you enjoying the summer so far?  It sure is cooler than normal.  Each year we average about 15 days or so above 90F, and this year, I believe we have only had 2 officially at MSP!  Each year goes in waves.  As we have a pretty strong El Nino going on now–this may end up taking us into a milder winter.  Anyways–enough talk about winter.  Our Severe Weather load has been noticeably lighter as well–and I am sure many of you are ok with that! Read more