Please cheer for me Sunday. At the Twin Cities Marathon I’ll be the fast-walking guy with a six-pack of ice-cold Surly Furious IPA on my shoulder. Staying hydrated is hard work.
Yes, mid-July in early October is disorienting, but we shouldn’t be too surprised by these odd late-season spikes of unusual warmth. It appears to be a trend. After an early September frost up north I said we probably hadn’t seen the last 90-degree day. Little did I know it would come in October.
Enjoy mid-80s Sunday with grit in your teeth (winds gusting to 40 mph) and then we cool off into the low 70s much of this week with comfortable sunshine. You’ll be SHOCKED to hear that 80s may return next weekend before a more significant cool-down into the 50s and 60s by mid-October. I still don’t see a metro frost through Oct. 20 or so.
It’s drying out rapidly out there — hoping we enter a wetter pattern the latter half of this month.
Good news: For the first time in a decade no September hurricane made landfall in the United States. Whew ...
