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Currently in the Twin Cities — October 23, 2023: Warm before our first taste of winter late-week
Plus, details on two hurricane landfalls over the weekend.
Sven Sundgaard & Eric Holthaus
October 22, 2023
The weather, currently.
Warm before our first taste of winter late-week
The week ahead will offer some major transitions from the continued mild status quo to our first taste of some wintry weather. Highs Monday and Tuesday will be in the 60s to near 70 Tuesday.
Rain will develop late Tuesday into Wednesday with a chance at even some severe storms late Tuesday. That system and a second system late in the week will draw in the coldest air we’ve seen yet. Highs by Friday will be just in the 40s and by the last couple days of October, in the upper 30s! This could lead to the first snowfall in northern Minnesota also.
What you need to know, currently.
Over the weekend two hurricanes make landfall — one in the Pacific, and one in the Atlantic.
Hurricane Tammy has been a rare late-October hurricane-strength storm in the tropical Atlantic, and meandered its way parallel to the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands before making landfall in Barbuda on Sunday. The storm caused intense flash flooding in Guadeloupe as well. Forecasts show that Tammy will continue meandering northwestward this week, but it’s still too early to say whether it will pose a threat to Bermuda or the US mainland.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Norma lashed the southern tip of Baja California before making a second landfall on the Mexico mainland over the weekend. It’s the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall on Mexico’s Pacific Coast this year.
#Topolobampo Fuertes vientos e intensa lluvia se registra en el puerto de Topolobampo ante la presencia de #Norma. Extremar precauciones.
— Alfredo Padilla MX (@Alfredopadiilla)
9:50 PM • Oct 22, 2023
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