![]() The old record was March 23 back in 1910. Imagine if you will a March that was so warm it would break six record high temperature records in the Twin Cities, have four days with muggy dew point temperatures that reached 60 and wound up warmer than October! To top it off the Twin Cities had its earliest 80 degree temperature ever with 80 degrees on St. As for Feisty? She found refuge at Como Zoo and now has over 800 followers on Twitter. Louis River engulfed and nearly destroyed the Jay Cooke State Park Swinging Bridge, but it will reopen in the summer of 2013. One of the iconic photos of the storm was of Feisty the seal who escaped the Lake Superior Zoo and wound up on a neighborhood street. ![]() There were so many roads flooded out in Carlton County that the county rain out of signs and more had to be trucked from the Twin Cities. The largest two day total was 10.10 inches just northeast of Duluth. The largest flash flood event in Minnesota for 2012 struck northeast Minnesota on June 19-20. #2 Northeast Minnesota Flood of June 19-20 By fall, soil moisture levels at the University of Minnesota Southern Research and Outreach Center in Waseca were some of the lowest on record. By late November 80% of the state was under a severe or extreme drought. The heavy rains of May and June, 2012 helped to blunt the drought a bit, but then it intensified by the late summer and continued into the fall. This could easily be #1 depending on where you live in Minnesota. To escape the heat, one had to go to International Falls where the average July temperature was 69 degrees making 2012 only the 12th warmest July on record there. Duluth had its warmest July on record, although in 1936, the recording station for Duluth was closer to Lake Superior. Only July 1936 was warmer with 81.4 degrees. 2011-12 wound up the tenth least snowy winter on record for the Twin Cities and was the fourth warmest winter on record.Ģ012 was the second warmest month ever for the Twin Cities back to 1872 with 80.2 degrees. One of the most wimpy winters ever seen in the Twin Cities and Minnesota was the result with mild temperatures and scant snowfall. Possibly a winter more snowy than 2010-2011 was in the cards. Do you agree? If you disagree with this list, please visit us on Facebook and post your top 5 weather events for Minnesota. Here are candidates for the top five weather events of 2012 from the Minnesota State Climatology Office. Numerous severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings were issued as the squall line roared across southeast Minnesota.ĭamage in Hartland, Minnesota, was from an EF2 tornado, just one of 11 others in the state.Top Five Weather Events of 2012 in Minnesota There had only been one severe thunderstorm warning issued in Minnesota in December prior to this storm, according to tornado researcher Harold Brooks at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Prior to this outbreak, there hadn't been a December tornado documented in Minnesota dating to 1950. ( MORE: Storm Impacts, Latest News) First December Tornado in the Land of 10,000 Lakes So here are the many strange and record-breaking aspects of this event that made it so notable for this time of year. "I can say with some confidence that this event - the heat and tornadoes - is among the most, if not the most, anomalous weather events ever on record for the upper Midwest," weather historian Christopher Burt said. Wednesday's widespread windstorm, severe weather outbreak and unusual heat from the Rockies and Plains into the upper Midwest were so bizarre for December that even weather historians were in awe. ![]()
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