It’s not the heat, it’s the humility. The humidity, too. “Weather patterns are changing,” according to farmers I’ve spoken with. Yep. A warming atmosphere contains more water vapor. Summers now are consistently stickier. More days with sauna-like dew points in the 70s. According to AP: “The average June and July humidity for the entire country east of the Rockies rose to more than 66 degrees, higher than any year since measurements started in 1950.”
Dew points will rise into the 70s again today into Monday as tropical air swirls into Minnesota. This atmospheric boundary will ignite more showers and thunderstorms, especially overnight hours, when warm fronts tend to intensify. Some 1- to 3-inch rainfall amounts are possible before we dry out by the middle of next week.
The Minnesota State Fair is fast approaching, and by a fluke of nature I don’t see 90s. In fact I see mostly 70s and low 80s into late August. Heck, we can handle that.
I’m working on the giant fans necessary to keep wildfire smoke in Canada. Stay tuned.
