By DJ Kayser, filling in for Douglas:
Happy Twins home opener! Lucky for them, the season is 162 games long. Last year's home opener (April 4) saw a high of 53 degrees with broken cloud cover. In 2023, the original home opener day (April 6) saw temperatures in the 30s and windchills in the 20s. The game was delayed to the next day, which had a high of 51 degrees.
No weather concerns for the home opener this year — expecting highs in the mid-40s and mostly cloudy skies. With our
Tuesday-Wednesday storm in the rearview mirror, the weather will greatly quiet down for an extended stretch. Highs through early next week will be in the 40s to low 50s, near or below average for early April.
Models show a warm-up into the 60s, though, for the second half of next week.
Heavy rainfall rates are on the rise. A Climate Central report shows that 126 out of 144 U.S. cities analyzed have seen an increase in hourly rainfall rates since 1970. In these cities, hourly rainfall rates are an average of 15% higher. For the Twin Cities, they found the hourly rain intensity has increased by 24%.
