Though we've enjoyed some nice early October weather down here in S. la, the overall picture across regions north of us does not bode well for an early migration. Some excerpts from a report on Weather Underground below
If you're in the Central and Mississippi flyways, this isn't what you want to see:
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October 11 was cooler in Louisiana than in much of the Dakotas, not good.
For October 11 highs observed:
International Falls, MN: 88°F
Duluth, MN: 84°F
Redwood Falls, MN: 90°F
*Fargo, ND: 97°F
Grand Forks, ND: 90°F
Aberdeen, SD: 93°F
Pierre, SD: 95°F
*Broken Bow, NE: 98°F
*Grand Island, NE: 97°F
Lincoln, NE: 94°F
**Colorado Springs, CO: 87°F
(asterisk = October record broken;
double asterisk = October record tied)
"The poster child for this autumn heat wave may be Fargo, ND, where the high on Sunday, October 11, was 97°F. Not only was it Fargo’s hottest day of 2015 thus far, but it was by far the warmest temperature ever observed so late in the year. Nothing so toasty had ever been recorded in Fargo any later than September 22, when the city soared to 101°F in 1936. Even in midsummer, hitting 97°F isn’t all that common in Fargo: from 1990 to 2014, that mark was reached in only 7 of 25 years."brettschneider-freezes-10_8_15.jpg
As shown above, good many places that normally have had a freeze so far, have not. Decent front coming through today that should get things back to remotely seasonable for the upper Midwest, though could sure use a shift westward of the jet stream, just hope we continue on that trend for remainder of October.
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