Twin Cities Winter Warmth, 1999 - 2000 For a third consecutive winter, temperatures were very mild across Minnesota. Twin Cities data show that the period November 1999 through March 2000, was the warmest November - March interval in the modern record. Looking at data collected prior to the modern record (1891-present), we see that 1999-2000 ranks only behind 1877-1878 as the warmest November - March period in post-settlement history. March of 2000 ranked third in the modern record, and it was the warmest March in over 50 years. For the "meteorological winter", December through February, temperatures were the eighth warmest since 1891.
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