~75% of Minnesota in Severe Drought; Wildfire smoke lingers through Saturday (air quality alert in effect) A few showers/t-storms possible late Friday night-Saturday, otherwise mainly dry into early next week
An Air Quality Alert is in effect until 3 PM Friday for pretty much all of Minnesota as wildfire smoke continues to impact the state which is leading to unhealthy air quality conditions. Smoke has been reducing visibilities across the Northland today – Visibility reports as of 5 PM Thursday, July 29, 2021 Brainerd, MN: […]
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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms still expected late this afternoon/evening over parts of the Northland – Updated 3 PM 7/28/2021
Conditions are still coming together for the potential of a higher end severe weather event from late this afternoon into this evening, primarily over far eastern Minnesota into parts of northwest Wisconsin. Primary severe weather hazards include large hail of golf ball to baseball size (1.75″ to 2.75″ in diameter) Damaging wind gusts of 65-85 […]
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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms likely over parts of the Northland today (Wednesday) Updated outlook
Conditions appear to be coming together for a higher end severe weather day across the Northland, but especially from far eastern Minnesota into northwest Wisconsin. Stay Weather Aware today! Note: Multiple rounds of storms could impact some parts of the Northland through this evening. Severe thunderstorms capable of producing widespread damaging wind gusts, very large […]
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Strong to Severe Thunderstorms possible in parts of the Northland Wednesday
Another round of scattered strong to severe thunderstorms is possible across northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin from Wednesday afternoon into Wednesday evening. The greatest chance for severe weather (Enhanced risk, orange area on map) stretches from eastern Minnesota into much of west-central Wisconsin, or roughly along and south of a line from Moose Lake to […]
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July 26-27, 2021 Severe Weather Recap
Additional Storm Reports from July 26-27, 2021 Source: https://www.weather.gov/dlh/ 5:33 AM: Hail 0.50 inch. 1 W Webb Lake, WI (Burnett County) 1:31 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage. 6 N Winter, WI (Sawyer County) A few smaller trees down and the top of a bigger tree down due to damaging winds. 1:09 AM: Hail 1.50 inch (Ping […]
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