It's 85 degrees right now in Minneapolis

[gristy]

The wind is blowing, there's dark clouds to the west, and the forcast is for some strong thunderstorms and a low temperature tonight of 43 degrees.

That is a 42 degree drop. That is a lot.

[gristy]

1. This is more like July weather, except for the 43 degree forcast

for tonight. Thunder rumbling in the west. Must get off the phone line. Blew my last modem in a t-storm last summer.

[Zinfandel]

2. Any good lakes to go fishing up there in Minesoda?

[gristy]

3. Yeah, there's ten thousand of 'em.

on edit: order of magnitude correction...

[Deja Q]

4. A very ominous system indeed...

85 degrees... yipes. I had 3 computers on today doing some intense work, and it usually gets that warm with them on!

42 degree drop, no wonder this system is whipping upa lot of rotation...

[tigereye]

9. our computers are pretty hot too

think it was in the 80s here.. but the cars are now clean! Good day for car washing and garden clearing.

[SmileyBoy]

5. HOLY SHIT!!! It was only 52 here in Fargo today!!!

And we're only 235 miles away...

[Zinfandel]

6. You mean the "Land of Ten thousand Lakes", Minnesota. I truly want to

get up there...live in N CA and want to see the beauty of Minn. sometime soon.

[dflprincess]

7. It was 90 when we left the Twins game about 4:30

very weird. And some very scary weather going on right now.

[Shananigans]

10. We were at the game today too!

Not a bad game! I just love those guys!

[gristy]

8. Here's the current radar

http://radar.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/metro_radar_...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. And then we had one big banger of a thunder/wind storm

The wind blew all day, and around 6:30, the sky grew really, really dark. Then the rain, thunder, and lightening came blowing in. It poured rain, so that the sloping driveway of my apartment's parking lot turned into a shallow waterfall, and the lightning kept flashing like a dying lightbulb.

There were possible tornados south of here.

I guess this is my official welcome back to the Midwest.