North Country took a time-out on warming trend
NOAA released its latest climate “normals” and northern Minnesota bucks the pattern found elsewhere Posted Marshall Helmberger REGIONAL— Northern Minnesota largely defied the global trend toward warmer temperatures over the past decade, based on the latest update to climate “normals,” released last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. The climate normals, or averages, are updated every decade to reflect temperatures and precipitation from the most recent thirty-year period. The new average climate data now reflects weather records from the period ...