Tag: air quality alert
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>50% of Minnesota in Severe Drought; Warm and Dry with wildfire smoke at times into early next week
Wildfire smoke leading to poor air quality, warm temps and a lack of rain are the main weather headlines in the Northland through early next week, as drought continues to worsen. June 29th – the last time Duluth had a thunderstorm (over 2 weeks ago and counting) July 6th –…
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Widespread wildfire smoke lingers into Friday AM (Air Quality Alert in effect) Warm and dry through early next week
An Air Quality Alert remains in effect until 9 AM Friday for the northern half of Minnesota (orange area on map) This is a high impact air quality event as widespread wildfire smoke continues to move south out of Manitoba and Ontario while impacting northern Minnesota. Some of this smoke…
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A little rain south areas Wednesday afternoon-evening, otherwise mainly dry through much of next week; Warm temps continue; Heat Wave possible ~July 18-23
Going Going Gone…That pretty much sums up the rain chance for Wednesday at least for most of the Northland, but much of northwest Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota still looks to get some rain Wednesday afternoon and evening, but northern Minnesota will miss out on Wednesday’s rain. As for Duluth and…
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A dusting of snow possible Sunday; near 40 degree temps and breezy Monday-Tuesday with a few snow/rain showers
A little snow is possible in parts of the Northland on Sunday with accumulations generally less than an inch, although its possible that a few isolated locations might get up to an inch of new snow. Impacts from this snow should be minimal though since temperatures will be in the…