Weather
July and August have the lowest average wind speeds of the year, just over 10 mph.
Evapotranspiration processes within green plants add humidity to the air and fields of beans and corn are more effective than native prairie grasses.
The MPCA has issued an air quality alert for northwestern and far west-central Minnesota through Tuesday, July 18, at 10 p.m. Eastern North Dakota might also experience smoky conditions.
The temperature in the Dallas area is forecast to rise above 100 degrees every day this week.
Locally as well as globally, the atmosphere has warmed, increasing evaporation.
Our overall precipitation pattern was consistently very wet from 1993 through 2011, and it appears to be on a drying trend since.
If air was not clear, people would be amazed at how often air motion becomes a vortex.
Smoke from wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia will move south across Minnesota following a cold front on Friday, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.
This was not a case of fake news, which is deliberately misleading, but just poor reporting.
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