Category: Record warmth
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Late‑night mix tonight; snow chances Friday and an active pattern next week
Confidence is fairly low about how things will unfold late tonight into Thursday morning, but there’s a chance we could see some rain and a wintry mix in parts of northeast and east-central Minnesota, stretching into northwest Wisconsin. This would happen as a frontal boundary slowly drifts south, with warm…
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Warmth fades Sunday as cooler air returns; light snow can’t be ruled out
Widespread heat lingered today, stretching from the southwest U.S. through the central Rockies and spilling north and east into the Plains. Temperatures hit the 70s, 80s, and 90s across these regions, with the southwest seeing highs in the 100s. Grand Island, Nebraska hit a scorching 98 degrees today, a whopping…
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Record High Temperatures in the Northland: February 15, 2026
After falling just short of tying or breaking record highs the past two days in Duluth, that changed today, as the temperature reached 46 degrees, matching the record high for February 15th set back in 1931. High temperatures for February 15, 2026, along with the records and deviations for that…
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Potential Midweek Winter Storm for the Northland
The main story is still the potential winter storm expected to roll in around midweek, but it’s worth noting today’s record-breaking warmth in the Northland. Ashland, Brainerd and Hibbing all set new daily high temperature records for February 14th, with more details on that coming later in this post. Here’s…
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Mild weather this weekend, with the possibility of wind and snow by the middle of next week.
An active weather pattern is expected next week, with a key period of interest from late Tuesday night through early Thursday morning. During this time, a broad low-pressure system is forecast to move out of the northern Rockies and western High Plains region. Colder air brought in by northeast winds…
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Update on the potential active pattern for next week
Computer models are still showing an active weather pattern for next week, with one period starting to come into focus—likely around the middle of the week, in the February 17–19 range. It looks like a broad low-pressure system will develop, stretching from the northern Rockies to the central Plains early…
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It’ll stay mostly dry through early next week, with slightly cooler temperatures over the next few days before a warming trend sets in.
This afternoon, temperatures warmed into the 70s as far north as Nebraska and western Iowa, while the 50s reached into southwestern Minnesota, including towns like Luverne, Jackson, and Worthington. Temperatures were cooler in northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin today compared to areas farther south, but even here we reached the…