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Metro frost advisories, Joaquin forecast chaos
Time to cover up those Supertunias. Frost advisories include St. Cloud and the northeast metro into Wednesday morning. Freeze warnings are flying again for northeast Minnesota and northern Wisconsin.
Seasonal reality check this week
Today's cool front brings a few scattered showers as it sags south. Cooler, more seasonal Canadian high pressure noses south into Minnesota this week and bumps temperatures back to reality.
Rare ‘Harvest Supermoon’ total lunar eclipse Sunday
It's September in Minnesota. Every weekend is picture perfect. Sunny skies. Summer-like temps in the 70s and 80s. Not a hint of a cold front of snow flurry in sight. The "ultra-glorious" summer of 2015 followed by the best September I can remember? A rare Harvest Supermoon total lunar eclipse to close out the last glorious September weekend?
Climate Cast: What Exxon knew in 1977
Inside Climate News reported this week that Exxon scientists knew as early as 1977 that the pace of burning carbon based fossil fuels would change earth's climate.
Spongy again today, another sunny weekend
One look outside today and we know what it must be like to live in a sponge. Our slow moving soggy low pressure system spins itself out today across the Upper Midwest.
Waves of rain
Expect rain in much of Minnesota at times Wednesday. The weekend looks even more summer-like that it did Tuesday. Plenty of sun and highs near 80 for the metro and southern Minnesota this weekend.