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Storm Update 2: Blizzard continues; Bitter cold crashes in
A dangerous Blizzard is ongoing and causing major problems causing visibilities to be reduced to feet in some areas. Travel is NOT advised for the remainder of Sunday. If you are curious about what...
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Phil’s forecast and winter going forward
The big moment has come and gone. Phil saw his shadow which means we are staying in the deep freeze. What does this really mean? Nothing. A groundhog can’t forecast the weather. It’s all just for...
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2014 So Far Ranking High in the Cold Air Department, Locally
First, thanks to Glenn and Todd at NWS La Crosse for compiling and sharing this data. Graph of yearly average high temperatures in Rochester, MN since 1930. 2014 to date is the 3rd coldest year in...
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Cold air invades for the end of October
After an unbelievably warm Monday that served as the climax to essentially a full week of mild weather in the region, cold air has once again made its way into the Upper Mississippi Valley and looks to...
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A cold start to the weekend, but a slight warm up is ahead
Having the coldest air mass of the season descend upon the region on Halloween certainly has been less than ideal timing for us, but at least it appears to be a short-lived cold snap. High temperatures...
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Colder air has arrived, even colder air is expected next week
The well-advertised cool down is underway and it looks like we’ll be going from typical early November chilly weather to downright frigid, December-like weather within the next week. That’s right,...
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The Cold Spell Continues
Our unbelievable cold spell has now passed the one week mark with plenty of cold weather still in our immediate future. We’ve been below freezing for eight full days now which isn’t quite a record for...
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Thanksgiving Conversation Starters
If there’s an awkward lull in the usually lively Thanksgiving dinner chit-chat today, you can always shift the discussion to weather because there certainly isn’t a shortage of topics in that...
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Bitterly cold this week; a very, very slow warming trend lies ahead of us
Even as we approach the final week of February, a time of the year when we start expecting brutally cold weather to be on the wane, we’re finding ourselves dealing with some of the coldest weather of...
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Forecasting the coming winter chill: How cold will we get this December?
Coming off an incredibly mild November (the average temperature was 42.8 degrees, 9 degrees above normal), you might be wondering if December will be similar. Well, that probably won’t be the case....
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