Our warm temperatures lately may make it seem like it's still summer, but there are some obvious signs that fall is urgently knocking on our door-- including how much earlier the sun is setting in Minnesota these days.
We're a month into fall already, and this Minnesota milestone of autumn is already nearly three weeks late in Rochester-- but it could happen this week.
Today is the official start of fall in Minnesota, and, yes, there IS a four-letter word that starts with the letter 's' in our autumn forecast this year.