National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Areas of Heavy Rainfall and Critical Fire Weather on Wednesday

Heavy to excessive rainfall may bring flooding to parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia Wednesday. Recently burned areas will be particularly vulnerable to flash flooding. Gusty winds and low humidity will bring critical fire weather to parts of the Northwest U.S. and central Alaska on Wednesday where Red Flag Warnings are in effect. Read More >

This was the 2nd warmest opening to a first week of September in Duluth weather history. The average temperature for the first seven days of the month averaged 69.6 degrees.  The warmest such stretch occurred in 1971 with an average temperature of 71.1 degrees.