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Minnesota weather: Rainfall, crashing temps is perfect late fall combo for our drought
Thursday’s forecast: Heat and wet begin to the day, then the chilly swoops in
Chilly is available in round midday taking temps from the 60s to the low 30s.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – Our midweek climate has been surreal for a lot of the Twin Cities and the southern half of Minnesota. Temperatures and dew factors have been within the 50s and 60s giving us a summer time really feel. However temperatures crash Thursday afternoon going from the 60s to sub-freezing in just some hours. Whereas that is lower than best for many of us, it is really actually excellent news for our drought.
From late Tuesday by means of Thursday, a lot of the state has acquired extra rain than what we have now seen within the final couple of months. Totals nonetheless diverse wildly with widespread 1-2 inches from Marshall and Morris, east-northeastward towards Duluth and the South Shore. There have been even some areas that acquired greater than 3 inches of much-needed rainfall.
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Rainfall totals within the Twin Cities metro from Tuesday by means of Thursday morning.
Rainfall totals throughout Minnesota from Tuesday by means of Thursday morning.
However the rainfall was fairly splotchy throughout the Twin Cities with a swath of 1-2 inches within the southeast metro from Lakeville to Cottage Grove and Hudson, Wisconsin. After which one other 1-inch-plus space within the northwest metro. Nevertheless, the guts of the metro missed out on among the heftier totals with most spots staying nicely underneath an inch. Formally 0.88 inches at Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport.
Drought circumstances throughout Minnesota.
Whereas this definitely helped a lot of the realm, the heaviest and most widespread useful rain simply missed the driest areas on our drought monitor typically staying simply north of the purple shaded zones which can be in excessive drought.
Blizzard warnings for North Dakota amid heavy snow, sleet
However the excellent news is that our fast bounce into the freezer, and sitting there for the foreseeable future, will rapidly begin to freeze the soil. This may lock in our current moisture because the soil kinds a “crust” stopping moisture from getting in or out, preserving all of that rain locked away till the bottom thaws within the spring … once we hopefully have wetter occasions.
It is this identical “crust” that forestalls any of our winter snow from really serving to our soil moisture, which is why winter snowpack would not typically assist us get out of a drought. Nevertheless, what the snow does do is assist replenish space lakes and ponds when it melts. So snowfall might not assist soil moisture, it is nonetheless very useful.
Bismarck, North Dakota winter storm
Snow and wind whip by means of Bismarck, North Dakota on November, 10, 2022. Video by Max Gorden, FOX Climate.
Roadkill in Minnesota is unfortunately a common sight. Deer, coyotes and skunks often meet a sad (and in the case of the latter, odorific) fate on the state’s roadways.
But what happens to the animals after they meet their untimely demise? That’s what reader Bob Abbott has been wondering. He contacted the Strib’s community reporting project, Curious Minnesota, to find out.
“I live in Alexandria at a lake in the summer. And as we head to our winter home in Florida, we see so many dead deer, raccoons, et cetera, alongside the highways,” Abbott said. “I’ve always wondered, who risks their lives to retrieve the dead bodies?”
It depends. Workers with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and other local road authorities are on the roadkill retrieval front lines. But agencies like the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) also issue permits to regular folks wanting to pick up a carcass.
This means that roadkill in Minnesota typically ends up in one of three places — it could land in a shallow roadside grave, in a special compost heap or on someone’s dinner table.
A gull and a raven face off over roadkill. (Jim Williams /For the Minnesota Star Tribune)
Roadkill incidents occur all year long. But as the Curious Minnesota questioner Abbott observed, they tend to increase during the fall, said Anne Meyer, a MnDOT spokesperson.
This is because the deer rut during fall. Their behavior changes as they seek out mates, causing them to become more active near roadways.
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ARIZONA — The Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings released their Thursday injury reports ahead of their Week 13.
The Cardinals saw Kelvin Beachum upgraded from DNP to Full after his rest day.
Emari Demercado (back), Darius Robinson (ankle), Jalen Thompson (ankle) and Jonah Williams (shoulder) all were limited for a second straight day.
It’s a fairly light injury report for the Cardinals, who again saw key defenders practice for a consecutive day – a potentially good sign for players such as Thompson and Robinson.
As for the Vikings:
DNP – Josh Oliver (wrist/ankle), Jay Ward (elbow)
Limited – Patrick Jones (knee), Cam Robinson (foot) and Andrew Van Ginkel (thigh)
Full – Harrison Phillips (rest), Jonathan Bullard (toe), Kamu Grugier-Hill (shoulder), Brandon Powell (ankle),
Phillips, Bullard, Grugier-Hill and Powell all saw upgrades in their practice status.
The Cardinals’ playoff chances again can sway either way for the squad with a win/loss in Minnesota, you can read more about their odds here.
Arizona stumbled out of their bye week against the Seattle Seahawks, and the Cardinals know defeating the Vikings on the road is a tall task.
“It goes back to the makeup of this team. We understand and ‘JG’ (Head Coach Jonathan Gannon) does a great job. After the game, I know he’s probably feeling the same way we feel, right? But at the end of the day, the message is we have to be ready for next week,” Kyler Murray said when asked about rebounding.
“We can’t let one turn into two, two turn into three. We have to get right back on the horse and keep going and the guys understand that. We’ve done a good job of bouncing back and we get another opportunity to go out there this weekend and do that again.”
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