Forecasters Say to Expect Warmer Than Average Temps for Meteorological Fall

(KNSI) – Summer started soggy in St. Cloud, and the rains never relented.

Meteorologist Tyler Hasenstein says we finished the season well above average for rainfall. “The 30-year average would be somewhere along the lines of around, maybe 11 and a quarter inches, for the summer. And as of yesterday, we are sitting at 14.26 inches for St. Cloud. So, running about three inches above normal for the summer, so far.”

Even though it hasn’t felt much like summer lately temperature-wise, Hasenstein notes we actually ran about a degree hotter than is typical for June through August. That’s looking at the mean temperature. Hasenstein says we didn’t necessarily see higher highs during the day. A lot of the variance was from not cooling off at night.

The fall outlook for St. Cloud from the National Weather Service predicts that summer heat will persist for as long as possible. Hasenstein warns that it won’t start out that way, though. “We’ll be having a system that will be moving through by the third or fourth, and that will bring along a cold front, which will cool us down again, probably into the middle of September, and then we’ll start to trend back towards those warmer-than-normal temperatures.”

Temps were below average through nearly the entire State Fair period, and more is yet to come in the near term. As far as precipitation is concerned, models are uncertain about what to expect. They were murky about summer, too, for what it’s worth.

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