Meteorological spring is defined as the period from March through May. Below you will find some Spring recaps from the Duluth National Weather Service and Mark Seeley.

Here is Mark Seeley's May recap

Listed below is a National Weather Service Statement about Spring 2005.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
155 AM CDT WED JUN 01 2005
...SPRING IN THE NORTHLAND CLOSES NEAR NORMAL, BUT THE MONTH OF MAY WAS A COOL AND WET ONE...

***TEMPERATURES***
THE SPRING MONTHS CONSIST OF MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY. SPRING OF 2005 BROUGHT A WIDE RANGE 
WEATHER AND TEMPERATURES TO THE NORTHLAND.  
INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAD A FRIGID NIGHT ON MARCH 2ND WITH A READING OF NEGATIVE 21 DEGREES.  
HOWEVER, ON APRIL 18TH, AS WELL AS ON MAY 8TH, INTERNATIONAL FALLS REPORTED AFTERNOON 
TEMPERATURES OF OVER 80 DEGREES.  MEANWHILE, RESIDENTS OF DULUTH SAW NEGATIVE 8 DEGREES 
ON MARCH 3RD, BUT ALSO REACHED INTO THE 70S ON 5 OCCASIONS THIS SPRING.
THE AVERAGE SPRING TEMPERATURE AT BOTH INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA AND DULUTH, MINNESOTA
 IS 38.7 DEGREES.  BOTH LOCATIONS ENDED THE SEASON WITHIN A DEGREE OF NORMAL.  DULUTH HAD
 AN AVERAGE SPRING TEMPERATURE OF 38.4 DEGREES, WHILE INTERNATIONAL FALLS WAS JUST A BIT 
COOLER WITH 37.8 DEGREES. 
THE MONTH OF MAY HOWEVER, FINISHED A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.  THE NORMAL AVERAGE TEMPERATURE
 FOR MAY AT INTERNATIONAL FALLS IS 53.3 DEGREES, AND 51.2 DEGREES AT DULUTH.  EVEN WITH THE FEW
 WARM DAYS AT THE END OF THE MONTH, INTERNATIONAL FALLS HAD A MAY THAT WAS 3.5 DEGREES BELOW 
NORMAL.  DULUTH CAME IN 2.9 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL.  
***PRECIPITATION***
SPRING BROUGHT 6.19 INCHES OF RAIN TO DULUTH.  UP NORTH, THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS AIRPORT RECEIVED 
7.28 INCHES; HOWEVER, OVER 2 INCHES OF THAT CAME FROM A SINGLE DAY IN MAY.    

THE NORMAL SPRING PRECIPITATION AT DULUTH IS 6.73 INCHES.  DULUTH WAS JUST 0.54 INCHES BELOW NORMAL 
THIS SPRING.  AT THE FALLS HOWEVER, THE NORMAL SPRING PRECIPITATION AMOUNT IS ONLY 4.89; NEARLY 2 
INCHES LESS THAN THE DULUTH NORMAL.  THIS LEAVES INTERNATIONAL FALLS 2.39 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL FOR 
THIS SPRING.  ALTHOUGH, IT WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO MAKE A PLACE IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE TOP 5 WETTEST SPRINGS.   
MAY WAS A DIFFERENT STORY.  BOTH LOCATIONS EXCEEDED THE NORMAL AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION THIS MONTH.  
INTERNATIONAL FALLS RECORDED 4.6 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, WHICH IS 2.05 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL FOR MAY.  
DULUTH CAME IN WITH 4.43 INCHES OF PRECIPITATION, WHICH IS 1.48 INCHES ABOVE NORMAL.       

***RECORDS***
ALTHOUGH NEITHER DULUTH NOR INTERNATIONAL FALLS MADE AND RANKINGS THIS SPRING OR MAY,
NEW DAILY RECORDS WERE MADE.
A RECORD RAINFALL OF 2.21 INCHES WAS SET AT INTERNATIONAL FALLS 25 MAY 2005. THIS BREAKS 
THE OLD RECORD OF 0.64 SET IN 1985.

A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 3.9 INCHES WAS SET AT DULUTH 10 MAR 2005.  THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD 
OF 3 INCHES SET IN 1893.

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