After a back-and-forth spring, central Minnesota finished near normal

(KNSI) – Spring around central Minnesota ended up close to normal this year, even after a stretch of dramatic swings between warmth and cold.

National Weather Service meteorologist Nick Carletta says the season ranked as the 94th warmest spring out of 133 tracked periods. Measured against the full record dating back to the early 20th century, he says it came in slightly above normal. Measured against just the past 30 years, it landed right around normal.

Carletta has a way of describing how the season tends to work in this region. “The way I like to describe spring in this part of the world is it’s less of a gradual change season as it is the time of change.”

That pattern, he says, was sharper than usual this year. Warm stretches and cold stretches traded places several times before warmth finally settled in over the past week or two.

With those swings now in the rearview, Carletta says warm weather has taken over heading into June.

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