Some of the earliest historical records concerning the weather of the Minneapolis, Minnesota area are from the period of 1820 to 1869. The articles below explain the weather history during this time period.
Minnesota Weather Summary for the 1860’s Coldest Decade in History, Precipitation Extremes. Anomalously cool temperatures, particularly during the summers, with precipitation extremes, both droughts and deluges, featured the 1860's’ weather…
Minnesota Weather Summary for the 1850’s Cold Winters, Occasionally Droughty Summers. Frequent cold and sometimes snowy winters combined with occasionally precipitation-deficient growing seasons marked Minnesota's weather during the 1850's. Now…
Minnesota Weather Summary for the 1840’s Abnormal Cold Lapses, “Open” Winters. Generally cool on an annual basis with progressively more snowless winters after 1844 characterized the 1840’s’ climatic conditions in…
Minnesota Weather Summary for the 1830’s Warm and Dry First Half, Colder and Wetter Second. Similar to the 1820’s, the 1830's displayed a sort of dichotomy of year-to-year weather regimes:…
Minnesota Weather Summary for the 1820’s Cool First Half, Warmer Second with Closing Drought A relatively cool first half but a warmer, and near the close, droughty second featured…
Minnesota weather for the year 1868 Forward Spring, Sweltering July, Dismal Fall (graphic) A highly favorable agriculture season preceded by extreme January cold and followed by a dismal Fall featured…
Minnesota weather for the year 1866 Abnormal Spells, Deadly Storms Very little in the way of weather was "normal" or ordinary over the settled areas of Minnesota during 1866. Protracted…
Minnesota weather for the year 1862 Severe Winter, More Spring Floods, Fall Drought Signs (graphic) Weather patterns and related happenings during 1862 combined some of the principal features of the…
Minnesota weather for the year 1861 Backward Spring With Floods, Another Cool Summer Weather and weather related conditions were not quite so agreeable across the settled areas of Minnesota during…
Minnesota weather for the year 1860 Early Spring Breakup, Favorable Growing Season (graphic) The first year of the new decade, one of the more agreeable of the 1860’s, brought a…