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Currently in the Twin Cities — October 3, 2023: Thunderstorms will bring a cold front
Plus, El Niño continues to accelerate global temperatures.
The weather, currently.
Thunderstorms will bring a cold front
The thermometer at MSP airport reached 92° on Sunday afternoon, not only a second daily record in a row broken but the hottest ever October temperature. It’s the latest we’ve ever been warmer than 90°. Madison, MN reached 97°. On Monday, we tied another daily record with 89° at MSP.
We’ll continue the heat still Tuesday with highs in the 80s but big changes are coming. A cold front will touch off some late evening/overnight thunderstorms followed by the first of two blasts of cool air. Highs Wednesday will be in the low 70s but by Friday we’re looking at 50s behind a clipper system.
What you need to know, currently.
New data show that the last week of September was the most anomalously warm week in history. That’s not so surprising given that we’re going into what looks like a very strong El Niño — the tropical Pacific warmth that defines these linked ocean-atmosphere patterns typically starts spreading worldwide during the last four months of the year.
Here’s more, from CarbonBrief:
Global surface temperatures set a new record this week for the highest daily temperature anomalies (departure from the norm) ever observed. They were recorded by a Japanese climate database called the JRA-55 reanalysis product. These were approximately 1C warmer than the 1991-2020 baseline period used by the dataset and around 1.9C warmer than the pre-industrial (1850-1900) temperatures.
As Currently reported last week, these data add to the increasing likelihood that we may already be living in the first 12-month period that’s 1.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels, and that a few upcoming weeks may top 2°C for the first time ever.
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