The average temperature in the metro was 26.3 degrees, according to data from the National Weather Service. The St. Cloud airport recorded 23.4 degrees.
Drifting smoke "will likely remain with us for a while," one group warned.
Nine days ago, 14 counties passed that threshold. We're now up to 64.
Rowdi went missing on the North Shore in February, but Cory Carlson has hope Rowdi is still alive.
The incident happened in February.
The crash happened early Thursday about 20 miles outside of Detroit Lakes.
Suni said she wouldn't be where he is today without her family.
The state auditor and state senator were driving home from FarmFest.
The new vaccination rewards program opened on Wednesday, and it has proven quite popular among the newly vaccinated.
Cousins says he's at peace with his decision.
Pieces of the victim's cane were found on his back, charges say.
The victim, a 25-year-old St. Cloud State grad, died two days later.
The rule goes into effect Monday, and will continue at the start of the new school year.
The National Weather Service said Friday that the meteorological summer months of June, July and August in Minneapolis and St. Paul were the third warmest on record. During the period, the average temperature in the Twin Cities was 74.8 degrees, 3.5 degrees above average. Only the summers of 1988 and 1933 were warmer in the metro.
It's official: This spring was the warmest on record in the Twin Cities, and it was the second-wettest, too. Temperatures during the meteorological spring -- defined as March through May -- averaged 54 degrees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the highest since modern record-keeping began in 1873.
According to the National Weather Service in the Twin Cities, parts of Minnesota will get a taste of May weather this week. Some clouds and light rain will linger Monday before a stretch of record high temperatures in the 60s and 70s moves in for the rest of the work week. That's about 30 degrees above normal.
Dig out the extra layers because the mercury is falling, starting Monday. The Weather Service and local forecasters say temps in the metro will hover around a mere 20 degrees for the next couple of days.
MPR's Paul Huttner crunches the numbers and says this month could be the warmest ever -- when compared with average temperatures at MSP airport -- in 121 years. So far temperatures overall have been 16.7 degrees higher than the average in the Twin Cities area.
The spike in temperatures seen across Minnesota comes on the back of the warmest winter in U.S. history.
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