Play4min 01secWading through June's recent rainstormsJune 22, 2018 10:49 AMBy Cathy WurzerAstronomical summer has officially begun — and while June has been warmer than average so far, it's also been rainy, with heavy storms and flooding recorded across swaths of the state this week.
Play4min 13secA hot, soupy weekend aheadJune 15, 2018 10:42 AMBy Cathy WurzerMorning Edition host Cathy Wurzer checked in with Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota professor emeritus, about the weekend forecast and other weather topics — including the state's record downpours.
Play4min 42secSo far in June, a bit of a break from last month's heatJune 8, 2018 10:52 AMBy Cathy WurzerAfter a sweltering May (the hottest ever recorded nationwide, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), June in Minnesota is off to a mixed start.
Play5min 21secForget April showers and May flowers -- we went from blizzards to sweltering heatJune 1, 2018 10:51 AMBy Cathy WurzerThe results are in: May 2018 clocked in as the third-warmest in Minnesota history. It was a climatological pendulum swing that came on the heels of the state's second-coldest April.
Play5min 20secDespite heavy rain, Minnesota experiencing a dry spellMay 25, 2018 9:04 AMBy Phil PicardiMore than 50 percent of the state's landscape is abnormally dry, while portions of Beltrami, Lake of the Woods, Roseau and Koochiching counties are in moderate drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Play3min 50secSeeley: More than half of state's 7 million acres of corn plantedMay 18, 2018 8:35 AMBy Cathy WurzerMore than half of the state's 7 million acres of corn is in the ground now. Some farmers are waiting for rain, but not in the southeastern part of the state where planters have had an abundance of precipitation.
Play3min 42secSeeley: April temperatures go from 0 to 60April 27, 2018 9:11 AMBy Cathy WurzerOur monthly average temperatures were about 9 to 12 degrees lower than average.
Play5min 51secSeeley: Minnesota sees two days of record snowfall across the stateApril 20, 2018 9:35 AMBy Cathy WurzerIt's not often Minnesota sees two consecutive days of record snowfall across the entire state. But that's what we got with the so-called Dayton's Monkey Storm of 2018.
Play4min 33secMark Seeley says get used to the cold weatherApril 6, 2018 10:15 AMThrough the first six days of April, temperatures are averaging 15 to 20 degrees colder than normal around Minnesota. The outlook for April continues to favor cooler than normal temperatures and mixtures of rain and snow for much of the month.
Play5min 14secMaking a monster: How the 1998 storm formedMarch 30, 2018 10:41 AMBy Cathy WurzerTwenty years ago this week, a huge storm sent hail and more than a dozen tornadoes swirling across southern Minnesota. How did it form?