Record Setting Cold -  June 5, 2000

Cloudless, dry high pressure overnight allowed rapid surface heat loss, producing some record-tying and record setting lows in parts of Minnesota.

From preliminary data, all of the temperatures from this morning reported below go into the record books for June 5th....these may have caused some problems for strawberry and blueberry growers among others....

Twin Cities International Airport 40 F  tied record low
Brainerd 34 F tied record low
Duluth 32 F tied record low
International Falls 33 F
Hibbing 32 F
Cambridge 28 F
Little Falls 34 F
Staples 36 F
Orr 30 F
Two Harbors 33 F
Aiktin 30 F
Ely 30 F
Embarrass 24 F

Coldest temperature ever recorded on June 5th in Minnesota was 18 F at Remer (Cass County) in 1985. Coldest this morning was Tower at 22 F

Mora 34 F 2nd coldest June 5th
St Cloud 36 F 3rd coldest June 5th

Mark Seeley
Professor and Extension Climatologist
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate
University of Minnesota
St Paul, MN 55108

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