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"There Is no bad weather, just different kinds of good weather." - Anonymous

It all depends on your perspective, but many Minnesotans may find near weather perfection over the next 2 weeks.

If you like sunny mild days and cool nights with "good sleeping weather" this forecast is for you. The only weather complaint you may be able to muster is asking for a little water for your lawn, garden or farm field.

More good news? The 2013 tornado drought continues. The atmosphere over Minnesota has mustered only 6 tornadoes so far in 2013. That's good news by anyone's measure. I have yet to hear a compelling case for tornadoes as "good weather," but I suppose it can be money in the bank if you're a storm chaser grabbing the money shot to sell to TV news?

I'll take the current tornado drought please.

Our dry northwest flow means nearly perfect weather the next few days. High near 80 in the Twin Cities metro area, and 70s up north will be the rule. Overnight lows will be in the coolish 50s with big daily "diurnal variations" -- big swings from morning low to afternoon highs of about 30 degrees thanks to dry air overhead.

The best risk for severe storms? South of Minnesota from Nebraska into Iowa. Here's' today's "convective outlook" from NOAA's SPC.

Let's hope so. "Only" 679 tornadoes so far in 2013 is the least in at least 10 years in the USA. That's just 57 percent of the 3-year average, and the lowest number in at least 10 years.

Only 6 twisters have skipped across Minnesota this year. That may approach record low levels as we near the end of "

Here's an interesting development. NOAA may experiment with seasonal toandos outlooks by next summer. The outlooks could be similar to hurricane forecasts. Time will tell if they are accurate or valuable. 

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Good Weather News? “There Is no bad weather, just different kinds of good weather.” – Anonymous It all depends on your perspective, but many Minnesotans may find near weather perfection over the next 2 weeks. If you like sunny mild days and cool nights with “good sleeping weather” this forecast is for you. The only…

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