Memorial Day weekends can be extremely fickle for weather in
this area. Some years like 1988 were
very hot with average high temperatures of 90 degrees for the three day
weekend. Even as close as two years ago
we averaged 87 degrees for the three days high temperature with one day at 95
degrees.
But if you are like me, you
tend to remember the really bad ones, like 2004, when it rained during parts of
all three days and the weekend total rainfall was 2.30 inches. The one Memorial Day I will never forget was the
one in 1992. It was cold in
weekend of the past 30 years locally, but at that time I was living in
Not only was it cold there, it snowed, the
latest measurable snowfall ever recorded in that area. Anywhere from 1-3 inches fell on Memorial Day
1992 in southern
I was in the minneapolis area in ’92 and can remember being inside all day Memorial Day and temps struggled to get out of the 40′s with a cold light rain. We had some bad springs in the early ’90s after Mt. Pinatubo erupted.
I was in Mankato at the time and grilled the hamburgers and hot dogs while it snowed 2″! I wasn’t going to let some snow stop me. I remember the band of snow was about 30-50 miles wide from near St. Cloud to south of Mankato. Very bizzare. That summer ended up being fairly cool, if I recall.
It was a cold summer. Frost near Mankato on the Summer Solstice that year. It didn’t warm up much until late August into September. Many locations didn’t even see one day above 90 that summer.