Backyard Almanac: welcome to Outstanding October




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Summary: It's been another record-setting week in the Northland ... September came in only 1° cooler than normal this year, but we saw less than an inch of rain, compared with the four inches or so we usually get. That means, so far this year, September and June are going down as some of the driest on record. Milkweeds, on the other hand, need dry conditions to form pods that then split open so they can disperse their seeds. And another record was broken yesterday at Hawk Ridge. They made this