Fri Morning Sun Dogs

Thanks to @aweidner22 for the picture below. These sun dogs were captured in Otsego, MN early Friday morning when the air temperature was well-nigh -20F. The MSP Airdrome dropped to -17F, which is the coldest temperature in the metro since -17F on February 15th, 2021. The coldest temperature recorded at the MSP Aerodrome terminal winter was -19F assault February 14th, 2021.

Coldest Depression Temps at MSP Since 2000

Below is a chart of the coldest low temperatures recorded at the MSP Drome since 2000. Our -17F on Friday morning time, January 7th, 2022, ties for the 12th coldest reading since 2000. Last year we dropped to -19F on February 14th. Note the coldest reading was -28F set on January 30th, 2019. Interestingly, we've only dipped to -20F or colder 9 times in a 21 twelvemonth time span (since 2000). Prior to 2000, the 21 year time span from 1978 to 1999, MSP dropped to -20F or colder 45 times!

Less Extreme Common cold

Co-ordinate to Climate Cardinal, there has been a tendency in less farthermost cold temperatures since 1970. In fact, since 1970, the lowest temperature each year has warmed nearly +12F since then. Certain, it can still get cold in winter, but the cold tends to be less intense and it tends not to be equally prolonged equally it was.

Warming Winters

Co-ordinate to Climate Primal, the average Winter temperature for the months of December - January - February, has increased nearly +v.7F in Minneapolis since 1970. Again, winter will still be cold, but the cold is certainly not every bit intense or equally prolonged as it was.

Generally Tranquility Next Several Days

Hither's the weather outlook through AM Wednesday. Other than a little light snow across far northern Minnesota on Saturday, the next several days look rather quiet across much of the Upper Midwest. There could be a little light snowfall across far southern MN late Lord's day night into early Monday morning, only information technology doesn't look to be very widespread.

Warmer, Then Common cold Over again

Hither's the 850mb temp bibelot through the the middle function of next week shows a brief warmup on Saturday before another cold punch arrives Sunday. This Arctic air could stick around through early on adjacent week, but risk of a thaw moves in by the middle part of adjacent week. Nosotros could see a +50F temperature swing from what we had Friday morning to loftier temperatures by Wed of next week.

Weekend Weather Outlook For Minneapolis

Here'southward the weather outlook for Minneapolis over the weekend. Annotation that high temps on Saturday will warm to about 30F, which will be significantly warmer than it was on Thursday and Friday. This warmer atmospheric condition volition exist very brief as another common cold slap arrives overnight into Sunday with highs falling dorsum into the single digits with sub-naught feels like temps.

Saturday Weather Outlook

Hither's the weather outlook for Minneapolis on Saturday. Thanks to a informal southward wind, temps volition bump up close to 30F in the Twin Cities, which will be almost +5F higher up boilerplate for early January. However, feels like temps will be in the unmarried digits and teens much of the day.

Meteograms for Minneapolis

The hourly temps for Minneapolis on Saturday prove temps starting in the teens the morning and warming into the upper 20s to almost 30F past the afternoon. Informal southward to southwesterly winds will turn west-northwesterly late in the twenty-four hour period, which will allow our temps to fall again overnight into Sunday.

Current of air Chill Values Sat

Feels like temps for Minneapolis on Saturday show a cold, sub-zero kickoff in the morning to the mid/upper teens in the afternoon. Thankfully it won't feel as cold equally it was on Th & Friday. All the same, Lord's day will feel sub-nil for much of the twenty-four hour period every bit another polar punch arrives through early next calendar week.

Weather Outlook For Saturday

High temps beyond the region on Saturday show readings warming into the 20s and 30s across much of the land, which will exist most +5F to +10F higher up average for early on January. It will be a fleck breezy, so feels like temps will be cooler, but not as cold equally it was on Friday. Regardless, enjoy the mild air considering Lord's day will exist common cold once again.

Extended Temperature Outlook For Minneapolis

The extended temperature outlook for Minneapolis over the next several days shows temps running to a higher place average past almost +5F on Saturday. However, look at how dank information technology gets Sunday and Monday with highs running well beneath average as some other polar punch arrives. Nosotros become back to nearly average on Tuesday and then well above average by Midweek with a take a chance of a thaw with highs warming into the depression/mid 30s!

Extended Weather Outlook For Minneapolis

The extended weather forecast through next calendar week shows another Chill plunge on Dominicus and Monday before mild air return during the 2nd half of adjacent week. In fact, several days late next week could warm to the freezing mark or improve, which will exist most +50F warmer than it was Friday morning time.

Extended Temperature Outlook For Minneapolis

According to the ECMWF & GFS extended temperature outlook, temperatures will be quite cold on Lord's day and Mon before several days of milder weather condition during the 2nd half of adjacent calendar week and weekend. The GFS shows some other potential surge of colder air equally we arroyo the centre and stop of January... Stay tuned.

8 to 14 Day Temperature Outlook

According to NOAA'south Climate Prediction Eye, the viii to fourteen mean solar day temperature outlook shows beneath average temperatures moving back into the Upper Midwest by the centre part of the calendar month. Meanwhile, folks forth the West Declension will be dealing with above average temps.

8 to 14 Day Precipitation Outlook

According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Eye, drier weather will be in place across the Due west Coast in mid January, while more active atmospheric condition will exist possible along the Forepart Range and the Gulf Coast States.

Common cold, But Not Equally Cold Every bit It Once Was
By Todd Nelson, filling in for Douglas.

Frigid temps on Fri morn gave style to a brilliant sun canis familiaris sunrise over the southeastern horizon. Many locations outside the Twin Cities metro dipped into the -20s and even -30s with even colder air current chills. Uffda!

The MSP Airdrome brutal just shy of a -twenty caste reading, just information technology was the coldest morning in the metro since February 15th, 2021 (-17F). The last time the core of the metro dipped to -20F or colder was January 30th, 2019 (-28F)! Interestingly, the MSP Drome has only dropped to -20F or colder 9 times in the last 21 twelvemonth since 2000. The 21 years prior to that (1978-1999), MSP dipped to -20F or colder 45 times!

According to Climate Key, our winter cold snaps are not every bit intense or as prolonged as they used to be. In fact, our average wintertime temperatures has warmed most +6F with the our coldest overnight lows warming nearly +12F since 1970. Aye, winters volition however be cold and snowy, only perhaps not as bad every bit they once were.

The next several days wait dry with a cursory warm upward today and another cold slap Sunday and Monday.

Nosotros'll see, but recollect this: in ii weeks average temperatures start to rising again, for the starting time time in half-dozen months. Eureka!

Extended Forecast

Sat: Breezy. Warmer PM hours. Winds: WSW 15-30. High: 30.

Sabbatum NIGHT: Partly cloudy & common cold. Feels similar -10F to -15F. Winds: WNW ten-fifteen. Low: -1.

SUNDAY: Cold winds. Another polar shot. Winds: WNW ten-15. High: seven.

Mon: AM Flurries south. Arctic temps. Winds: WNW 5-10. Wake-up:-x. High: ane.

TUESDAY: Frigid commencement. Better afternoon temps. Winds: Due south 5-ten. Wake-upwards: -viii. High: 23.

WEDNESDAY: Generally sunny. Chance of a thaw. Winds: WSW v-10. Wake-up: 12. High: 32.

THURSDAY: Another 'mild' day. Hazy PM sunshine. Winds: WNW 5-10. Wake-up: 19. High: 33.

FRIDAY: AM snow showers. Cold winds develop. Winds: Northward 10-20. Wake-up: 15. High: 28.

This Day in Weather History

January 8th

1902: A January Thaw occurs across Minnesota. The Twin Cities feel a loftier of 46 degrees.

Boilerplate High/Low for Minneapolis

January 8th

Average High: 23F (Record: 54F prepare in 2003)

Boilerplate Depression: 8F (Tape: -30F set up in 1875)

Tape Rainfall: 0.33" gear up in 1875

Record Snowfall: 3.0" set in 2015

Sunrise/Dusk Times for Minneapolis

January 8th

Sunrise: 7:49am

Sunset: 4:44pm

Hours of Daylight: ~viii hours & 59 minutes

Daylight GAINED since yesterday: ~ 1 minute & 21 seconds

Daylight GAINED since Winter Solstice (December 21st): ~ thirteen minutes

Moon Stage for January 8th at Midnight

0.5 Days Before First Quarter Moon

National High Temps Saturday

The weather outlook on Sat shows lingering mild Jan temps across the Southern U.s. with highs running nearly +10F to +15F above average. Meanwhile folks in the Eastern United states of america volition see highs well below boilerplate after a big snow tempest over the final couple of days.

National Weather Outlook

The atmospheric condition outlook through the weekend shows a line of showers and storms developing along and east of the Mississippi River Valley late weekend and into early next calendar week. Some of the storms could be a bit on the vigorous side with locally heavy rains. Areas across the Ohio Valley, Swell Lakes and Northeast will run into some freezing atmospheric precipitation and snowfall.

Extended Precipitation Outlook

According to NOAA's Weather Prediction Center, areas of heavy precipitation will exist plant in the Lower Mississippi Valley through the weekend. Meanwhile, drier weather condition will be in place across the Midwest.

Extended Snowfall Potential

Here's the extended snowfall potential as we approach mid January. Areas of heavy snow volition exist possible beyond the northern tier of the nation, including the Keen Lakes Region. In that location will as well be ongoing areas of heavy snowfall in the high elevations in the Western US.

Climate Stories

"The AI forecaster: Automobile learning takes on weather prediction"

"According to a 2009 written report , U.Due south. adults look at weather condition forecasts nearly 300 billion times a year. Reliable forecasts can predict hazardous weather―such as blizzards, hurricanes, and wink floods―as early on as 9–10 days before the upshot. Estimates value these forecasts at $31.5 billion per year. Although conditions prediction keeps improving twelvemonth to year for shorter-term forecasts, forecast skill decreases in the 2-week to 2-month time frame. These longer-timescale forecasts can play a critical role for many sectors , including water conservation, energy demand, and disaster preparedness. In a new study, Weyn et al. set out to improve this subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, as it is known, using a novel approach to weather prediction. Using a convolutional neural network , the authors developed a machine learning weather condition prediction system called Deep Learning Weather Prediction (DLWP). The model is trained on past weather data, which differs from standard numerical weather prediction models that create mathematical representations of physical laws. DLWP projects two–half-dozen weeks into the future for the entire earth."

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"Foreign Things That Can Happen To Your Body In The Winter"

"Practise you beloved the winter season? Information technology's the fourth dimension of year to get out the warm, bulky sweaters, potable hot cocoa past the fireplace, or get skiing. Shoveling snow isn't for the faint of centre, simply watching information technology fall and plough the mural into a winter wonderland can be one of the season's joys. Alas, with the cold weather comes a host of ailments that are triggered by the dipping temps. In fact, there'due south a lot of strange things that can happen to your body during these dank months. Nosotros sleep ameliorate because it's colder and darker for longer and, thankfully, our hay fever takes a break. Nosotros fifty-fifty retrieve more than clearly when the temperature plummets, a 2017 study published in Psychological Inquiry found. Even just being shown images of colder temperatures improves knowledge, and so there'due south a trick for those of you in warmer climates. In that location's even stranger things that tin can happen to your trunk in the wintertime, though. Many of them will probable surprise you."

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Extreme air pollution from US wildfires now affects millions of people

"The area of the western Usa hitting by the unusually high co-occurrence of two air pollutants because of wildfires has more than doubled in the past decade, exposing millions more people to dirty air. California and other western states have seen historic wood fires in the past five years that accept claimed lives, destroyed belongings and forced evacuations. Now there is show that the human price reaches much further than the blazes' immediate vicinity. After personally experiencing an increase in smog and smoke in recent years, Daniel Beau at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues explored the role wildfires play. 2 types of air pollution – tiny particulate matter called PM2.5 and ozone – are both linked to homo health concerns, but they tend to peak at different times of the year. If in that location is a significant level of wildfire action, however – which in the western Usa can occur between July and September – it is possible to see simultaneous peaks in the two pollutants. Such a co-occurrence is thought to have a disproportionately more severe wellness touch on than either pollutant in isolation."

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