Today is the last day of meteorological summer. This past summer will likely be remembered as the summer of tornados as this area finished with tornado numbers well above the historical average. With the severe weather came rain amounts that varied widely across the area. Around Fargo Moorhead, rainfall amounts were above average, but not excessively so with totals running one to three inches above normal.
The Minnesota Lakes country on the other hand did have excessive rain problems this summer with much of Becker and Otter Tail counties finishing with rainfall totals between five to ten inches above average. Yet, just north of Fargo, rain was scarce, with some portions of Steele and Traill counties finishing the summer with rainfall totals below average.
The summer of 2009 was cool and dry, this summer finished warm and moist. Perhaps we will get lucky and our up-coming winter will be the opposite of what happened last year as well.
Daryl Ritchison
John Wheeler
Rob Kupec
Ha! – Not in Florida. We still have a good 6-8 weeks of high heat and humidity … plus hurricanes. Could you bottle a couple cans of that cold air and send it down?
Only if you’ll in return, send some heat my way come winter! (I’ll need an extra big can of warmth come November through March)
Possibly I could send some sand from the beach … or how about some sopping wet swamp marl?
That wet swamp marl sounds very interesting. You may want to send a couple of cans of that up.