Ron Trenda
Weekend Meteorologist at MPR News (Saint Paul, MN)
Retired meteorologist. Forecast Twin Cities and Minnesota weather for more than 40 years. AMS seal of approval and Emmy award winner.
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Mar 23, 2024 |
mprnews.org | Ron Trenda
Get ready for some heavy snow and strong winds. Light snow will move into portions of southern and central Minnesota Saturday evening. Snow coverage expands to include much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin later Saturday night. The snow then continues Sunday and Sunday evening, with heavy snow at times. The heaviest snow in the Twin Cities metro area expected to be Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening. Much of Minnesota will have snow Sunday night and Monday.
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Nov 11, 2023 |
mprnews.org | Ron Trenda
There could be quite a northern lights display Saturday night, where clouds don’t get in the way. Here’s the Saturday night aurora forecast from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center:Southwestern and west-central Minnesota had the largest breaks in cloud cover early Saturday evening, and some of those breaks could gradually expand eastward Saturday night. Northeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin are expected to stay mostly cloudy Saturday night.
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Jul 30, 2023 |
mprnews.org | Ron Trenda
We enjoyed comfortable temperatures and dew points this weekend. We’ll see a gradual uptick in both categories over the next few days. Temperature trendsThe Sunday high temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 81 degrees, which is 2 degrees shy of the average July 30 high temperature in the Twin Cities. Much of Minnesota and western Minnesota saw Sunday highs in the 70s, with a few spots in southern and west-central Minnesota reaching the lower 80s.
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Jul 30, 2023 |
mprnews.org | Ron Trenda
Most of us will have a dry Sunday, but an upper level disturbance will bring a chance of scattered showers and an isolated thundrstorm to parts of Minnesota. The best chance of scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm Sunday morning will be from west-central through central Minnesota and into parts of northeastern Minnesota. By Sunday afternoon, the shower/isolated thunderstorm chance shifts mainly to southwestern Minnesota and parts of south-central Minnesota.
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Jul 29, 2023 |
mprnews.org | Ron Trenda
A high pressure system that’s centered off to our northwest is bringing us north-northwesterly breezes and comfortable temps and dew points today. Tomorrow is looking good too. Good air qualityThe Minnesota Pollution Control Agency forecasts good air quality across Minnesota today:Our air quality is expected to remain in the good category on Sunday.
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This is a nice time of year to retire! I'm retiring at the end of April. It's been great covering our Minnesota weather since the late 70s 🙂
The Twin Cities snow total of 2.7 inches in October was higher than the monthly snow totals of any of the following three months. That's never happened before in Twin Cities snowfall records that go back to 1884! https://t.co/uSHaQJkNxH
Warm enough for you? 98 degrees at MSP this afternoon ties the warmest Sept. 4 high temp in Twin Cities weather records. This is the hottest Labor Day in Twin Cities weather records...the previous record was 97 degrees, set on Sept. 1, 1913. https://t.co/kgkdJwqHdL