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It's about zero in your freezer. It's -14 outside your front door in the metro this morning.
Monday's arctic front on steroids plunged temperatures so rapidly; it rivals the biggest 24 hour calendar day temperature change in on record for many locations. In the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, a nearly instant freeze grips New York City. It felt like that in Minnesota yesterday.
In the Twin Cities Tuesday, we plunged from 36 degrees at midnight, to -13 by 11pm. That's a 49 degree plunge, the biggest daily temp change in at least 23 years, and rivals the biggest calendar day temperature change of 51 degrees in 1903.
La Crosse tied the record for the biggest daily temperature change at 53 degrees! Rochester had the 6th largest change on record.
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So congratulations. You've just endured one of the most unique weather events of a lifetime in Minnesota.
Let's hope so anyway.
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