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Warm Septembers

The query, visualization and data set below is for the average Minneapolis temperature (combination of high and low temps) for September from the beginning of records until today (2024).

First real heat of the year

There's a heat dome forecast to settle into the upper Midwest tomorrow that will hang around for the next week. Temperatures are expected to be 85F degrees and higher with lows dipping only into the 70s at night. This will be the warmest the summer of 2024 has been so far.

Updates to Today's Record High

Updates to Today's Record High

I updated my climate tracking website, Today's Record High, this week to get better SEO results for users search for what is today's record high.

The warmest winters in Minneapolis to date

The warmest winters in Minneapolis to date

It feels like its getting warmer here, so I wanted to show the actual trend to give me a definite answer. The project involved parsing through extensive weather data to track the average temperatures of seasons across years - winter in this case.

Just about the warmest winter on record (so far)

Just about the warmest winter on record (so far)

I pulled the top ten warmest December, January and February months based on the average temperature for each of the months from the ACIS tool.

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Minneapolis weather stats for February 2023

At the beginning of the month I look back at the previous month to see how hot (or cold) the previous month was compared to historical normals. This also gives me a good way of finding if there were any extreme temperature events that happen during the month, like if

Minneapolis Weather Visualizations For June 2022

Minneapolis Weather Visualizations For June 2022

At the beginning of the month I look back at the previous month to see how hot (or cold) the previous month was compared to historical normals. This also gives me a good way of finding if there were any extreme temperature events that happen during the month, like if

May 2022 Minneapolis Weather Stats

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May 2022 Minneapolis Weather Stats

Meteorological summer started yesterday and it felt a bit colder than normal with a high of 70℉ degrees where the normal high is 75℉. Not a huge difference, but I can feel the cool 50s on my morning bike ride to daycare drop off. The rest of the month looks

List of all weather stations by state

List of all weather stations by state

I’m currently writing an app to display and chart record high and low temperatures for locations around the United States. As I was writing the station selector I realized that I would need to create a list of all weather stations by state. Because of the large number of

Chart record high and low temperatures: Part 2

Chart record high and low temperatures: Part 2

In the last post, Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1, I wrote a plan and light technical specification to outline a project to chart record high and low temperatures in a dashboard for a given location as well as other record breaking weather events. Since I wrote that last

Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1

Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1

I’m going to create a website where users can get a quick look at historical record high temperatures throughout the United States along with what the average temperature is for any given date within the year. Users will select a location and date to return a bar chart of

Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1

Charting historical record high temperatures: Part 1

I’m going to create a website where users can get a quick look at historical record high temperatures throughout the United States along with what the average temperature is for any given date within the year. Users will select a location and date to return a bar chart of

October Snowstorm

It started snowing again today. At first the snow was a light snow that reminded me of “Stranger Things” other world type of snow. But now it’s turned into a full on snow storm with a forecasted total of 6 inches accumulated when it’s all over. In Minnesota