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YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY BOARD MEETING MINUTES

    Chairman Dick Wambeke called this regular meeting of the Yellow Medicine County Board to order at 9:00 a.m. with Commissioners Louis Sherlin, Gary Johnson, Greg Renneke, Dick Wambeke and Ron Antony present.  Also present were County Administrator Ryan Krosch, County Attorney Keith Helgeson, Granite Falls Advocate Tribune reporter Scott Tedrick and Marshall Independent reporter Steve Browne.     Approve Agenda 5-10-11-01  Motion by Commissioner Sherlin and seconded by Commissioner Johnson to approve the agenda with the following changes:  add Echo prosecution contract to the consent agenda; add signs for Timm Park, introduction of the new County Drainage Inspector and Farmers Coop Association request for tax abatement to other business; add April investment report and  County Commissioner redistricting information to the informational items.  Motion carried with all voting in favor.     Consent Agenda 5-10-11-02  Motion by Commissioner Sherlin and seconded by Commissioner Antony to approve the consent agenda items as follows:  minutes of the April 26, 2011, County Board meeting; gambling premises permit at the Montevideo Country Club for the Lac qui Parle Lake Association; Resolution #11-2011 supporting the MN Valley Regional Railroad 2011 State bonding request; agreement for prosecution services between the Yellow Medicine County Attorney’s Office and the City of Echo.  Motion carried with all voting in favor.     Commissioner Antony reported on the Pioneerland Library Board, SW Radio Board and 6W Corrections.  Commissioner Wambeke reported on the County HRA and Adult Mental Health LAC.  Commissioner Renneke reported on the SWCD.  Commissioner Johnson reported on 6W Corrections and the RDC.  Commissioner Sherlin reported on Area II.     City of Porter Tax Increment Financing Plan for the Porter Elevator 5-10-11-06  John Meyer, Finance Consultant for the City of Porter, presented a tax increment financing (TIF) plan for the development of a feed mill for the Porter Elevator.  The previous feed mill was destroyed by fire in March.  The City of Porter is requesting Yellow Medicine County waive the 30 day comment period a county is given under State Statute to provide comments on proposed TIF plans.

Improving weekend forecast; Rare "Heat Burst" strikes Kansas ...

ZBRM5: ZUMBROTA MN : DH0700/ 65 / 51 / 0.22

The weekend forecast looks cooler than average, but pretty good all things considered.

Let's break down the numbers this weekend.

Saturday: Low pressure will pull out of Minnesota Saturday. There may be a few lingering showers in the morning, but skies should brighten and trend sunnier as the day wears on.

Look for highs in the 60s, about 10 degrees below average for the 2nd weekend in June.

Winds: Light easterly

Sunday: Sunday looks like the warmer day of the weekend. A weak bubble of high pressure over Wisconsin should be strong enough to stave off a weak weather disturbance moving in from the Dakotas.

That should mean mostly sunny skies, with a few clouds mixing in as the day wears on. Temperatures should reach the milder 70s in most areas.

Wind SE 5-12 mph.

Rare "Heat Burst" spikes temperatures 20 degrees to 101 in Wichita, after midnight!

A weather phenomenon called a " heat burst " struck Wichita, Kansas overnight Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

Heat bursts occur with some frequency in the mountains during the summer monsoon, but are more rare in the Midwest.

They can happen when thunderstorms collapse at the end of their life cycle. As moist air from the storm descends from above, the air cools and drys out initially. Then the air warms rapidly during the last several thousand feet of descent, and compresses when it reaches the ground.

Both the adiabatic warming of descent (Chinook like warming) and compression heating cause temperatures to spike rapidly, and a heat burst is in progress.

At 12:22 a.m. the temperature at Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport was 85 degrees. At 12:44 the temperature spiked to 102 degrees. This was a 17 degree increase in only 20 minutes. Winds gusted to near 60 mph.

July 17, 2006

An interesting weather phenomena called a "Heat Burst" happened over west central and central Minnesota during the overnight hours of Sunday July 16th to Monday July 17th. A heat burst is caused by a dying thunderstorm with very warm air aloft. The temperature at Canby jumped from 91 degrees to 100 degrees in 40 minutes (from 10:35 pm to 11:15 pm) at the same time the dew point dropped from 63 to 32 degrees.

Portugal, July 6, 1949: A heat burst reportedly drove the air temperature from 38 °C (100.4 °F) to 70 °C (158.0 °F) two minutes later (note that the highest temperature formally recognized on the Earth is57.8 °C (136.0 °F) in Libya in 1922, and the former record has not been verified).

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