Noaa Duluth Mn (2024)

FAQs

How accurate is NOAA? ›

A seven-day forecast can accurately predict the weather about 80 percent of the time and a five-day forecast can accurately predict the weather approximately 90 percent of the time. However, a 10-day—or longer—forecast is only right about half the time.

The current weather report for Duluth MN, as of 5:55 AM CDT, has a sky condition of Overcast with the visibility of 9.00 miles.

NOAA periodically updates its datasets to provide the most accurate depiction of environmental conditions.

According to Nate Silver, who did the math in his book Signal To Noise, both The Weather Channel and the National Weather Service are pretty accurate. However, remember that The Weather Channel is set up TO MAKE MONEY. So they do things to make you feel more positively towards them.

The 2023-2024 season started quite snowless, and that trend continued through February. Duluth's season total was only 18.7″ through March 15th. The second half of March then brought Duluth more snow than the fall and winter combined with 19.9″.

July snow would be an extremely rare event, and has not likely occurred in the last 300 years. Snow probably has never occurred between June 20 and August 20 since the USA took over the region in 1815."

However, winters are still known for being long, snowy, and cold. Maximum temperatures remain below 32 °F an average of 106 days a year, the second most days of any city in the contiguous U.S. behind only International Falls.

THE Halloween Blizzard. Over 28 inches at MSP, nearly 37 inches at Duluth. Nasty wind chill conditions, deep snow drifts harsh on wildlife, many roads closed for days. Perhaps one of the largest and longest lasting blizzards in state history.

What is Duluth coldest month? ›

Duluth's coldest month is January when the average temperature overnight is -1.2°F. In July, the warmest month, the average day time temperature rises to 76.3°F.

The St. Louis River cutting through the deep snow, as seen from the Swinging Bridge at Jay Cooke State Park on March 18, 2023. With a wintry blast early in the morning on Thursday April 20, Duluth received two inches of snow, breaking its all-time seasonal snowfall record.

In the second half of the 20th century, Duluth's population fell off a cliff, shrinking to about 84,000 by 2008 from nearly 107,000 in 1960. Its massive steel and cement manufacturing complex — the largest employer in the city — closed, and other factory closures followed. Grain shipments to its port slowed.

A tourist destination for the Midwest, Duluth has the nation's only all-freshwater aquarium, the Great Lakes Aquarium; the Aerial Lift Bridge, which is adjacent to Canal Park and spans the Duluth Ship Canal into the Duluth–Superior harbor; and Minnesota Point (known locally as Park Point), the world's longest ...

NOAA's dedicated scientists use cutting-edge research and high-tech instrumentation to provide citizens, planners, emergency managers and other decision makers with reliable information they need, when they need it.

The NOAA Institutional Repository is a digital library of scientific literature and research produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through curated collections researchers can access documents and materials related to specific areas of research.

NOAA satellites observe the Earth from space, constantly scanning the planet to collect the most up-to-date data about the atmosphere, land, and oceans. This information is vital to our daily lives—and is in fact the basis for every weather forecast.

While NOAA releases seasonal outlooks much closer to the time frame they're predicting (such as releasing the winter outlook in mid-October), the forecasts are still subject to changes for accuracy, while the almanacs are set in stone once they're published.