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It's so true. We earn our summers in Minnesota.

https://twitter.com/MPRweather/status/1136451074032898048

My informal, unscientific poll of Minnesotans shows that 96.8% of Minnesotans are loving the year's longest run of warm days so far. The other 3.2% might be living near Lake Superior. I saw 45 degrees at Grand Marais harbor Thursday afternoon. It was 93 in Canby in western Minnesota. That's a 48-degree temperature contrast across the state. Welcome to Minnesota.

So far June is running about 4 degrees warmer than average. Summerlike weather hangs around through Saturday. A modest cool front brings slightly cooler, but still very pleasant air next week.

Skies stay mostly dry into next week. Our weekend front trigger s a band of showers Saturday night into early Sunday. The sun appears ready to return again by Sunday afternoon to make for a pleasant end to the weekend. Most models keep rainfall totals low through most of next week.

Here's NOAA's GFS model rainfall output through next Friday. Farmers are breathing a little easier.

The U.S. has just recorded the wettest 12-month period on record. Studies find when you add 5% more water vapor to a warmer atmosphere, that can supercharge rainfall totals in some 

storms like Hurricane Harvey by as much as 15 to 30-percent.

We know Minnesota is getting wetter. That signal appears to be unfolding in much of the rest of the nation.

https://twitter.com/NOAASatellitePA/status/1136652837310439426

So far 2019 is the 7th wettest year on record in the Twin Cities.

https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1136651128576196609

The weather forecast that saved the world

The story behind the meteorologist who made the successful forecast that allowed the D-Day invasion is fascinating and heroic. 

https://twitter.com/BBCNorfolk/status/1136331066208399363

We’ve earned this: Summer breezes; D-Day weather forecast saved the world

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