I live on the east side of the MN/WI state line and woke up to no electricity and trees down everywhere. Checked the weather report in the Minneapolis paper. Here is part of it:
"This is the closest we'll ever come to experiencing a hurricane in Minnesota. It was a "Land Hurricane" air accelerating into a monstrous storm over the MN. A 28.20" central pressure was observed over Bigfork, Minnesota late afternoon Tuesday. The final (official number) may be slightly different, but there is NO question we set an all-time record yesterday for the lowest pressure ever observed in the USA, and it happened over Minnesota. An extreme contrast in barometric pressure whipped up 50-63 mph. wind gusts across the state, downing trees & powerlines. Tuesday's storm was stronger than most hurricanes, more intense than the Armistice Day Blizzard, the 1991 Halloween Superstorm, even the wild storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975.
Wow! At least we got a record for this.
weather report
"This is the closest we'll ever come to experiencing a hurricane in Minnesota. It was a "Land Hurricane" air accelerating into a monstrous storm over the MN. A 28.20" central pressure was observed over Bigfork, Minnesota late afternoon Tuesday. The final (official number) may be slightly different, but there is NO question we set an all-time record yesterday for the lowest pressure ever observed in the USA, and it happened over Minnesota. An extreme contrast in barometric pressure whipped up 50-63 mph. wind gusts across the state, downing trees & powerlines. Tuesday's storm was stronger than most hurricanes, more intense than the Armistice Day Blizzard, the 1991 Halloween Superstorm, even the wild storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior in 1975.
Wow! At least we got a record for this.
weather report