Pleasant weather continues

We "only" reached an official high temp of 82 degrees in the Twin Cities metro area on Monday.

That's still well above our average high of 76 degrees, and it felt very comfortable.

Our streak of consecutive days with a high of 90 degrees in the Twin Cities ended at three.

That's still quite rare this early in the year:

Based on the NWS data above, this year is only the 5th year in which we've seen 3 or more consecutive days of 90 degrees or warmer in the Twin Cities before June 5th.

Above normal

Highs Tuesday will be in the upper 70s to lower 80s over much of Minnesota:

Wednesday's highs will be similar to Tuesday's:

Twin Cities metro area highs are expected to be in the lower 80s Thursday and Friday, but they could be near 90 degrees this weekend.

Rain chance

Tuesday will be dry and mostly sunny.

We could see some scattered showers in parts of Minnesota on Wednesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential shower pattern:

Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms will be possible this coming weekend, mainly late Saturday and on Sunday.

Crop update

Our recent weather has been good for Minnesota farmers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly Minnesota Crop Progress & Condition report, which was released Monday, stated:

Warm weather advanced crop development in Minnesota during the week ending June 4, 2017 according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.  The sunny days and dry conditions allowed for 5.5 days suitable for field work.

The report has these details:

Ninety-two percent of the corn crop had emerged, one week behind last year, but 5 days ahead of the five-year average.  Corn condition improved to 77 percent good to excellent, up 9 percentage points from the previous week.  Soybean planting was 94 percent complete, remaining 8 days behind last year, but 10 days ahead of average.  Sixtyeight percent of the soybean acreage had emerged, 6 days behind last year but 3 days ahead of average.  Soybean condition was 74 percent good to excellent.

Spring wheat was 31 percent at or beyond the jointing stage 10 days behind last year and 6 days behind average.  Spring wheat condition rated 95 percent good to excellent. Oats were 96 percent emerged, with 53 percent of the oat acreage at or beyond the jointing state.  Seven percent of the oats were at or beyond the heading stage.  Oat condition improved to 84 percent good to excellent.  The barley crop was 97 percent emerged with 33 percent at or beyond the jointing stage.  Barley condition rated 92 percent good to excellent.  Dry edible beans planting advanced to 4 days ahead of the average to 84 percent planted.  Thirty-two percent of the dry edible bean crop had emerged.  Sunflowers were 94 percent planted, one week behind last year, but 15 days ahead of average. Potato planting was nearly complete at 98 percent planted.

Our weather has improved a lot since that cool and wet stretch that we saw in May.