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Parts of northwestern Minnesota saw some severe thunderstorms late Sunday afternoon. Additional severe weather is possible in northwestern Minnesota Sunday evening and into the overnight hours of Sunday night.

r has issued a tornado watch which continues until 10 p.m. this Sunday in eastern North Dakota and much of northwestern Minnesota:

Severe weather, including large hail, damaging thunderstorm winds and tornadoes will be possible in and close to the watch area.

Here’s the SPC severe weather outlook for Sunday evening and overnight Sunday night:

The tornado watch covers much of the enhanced risk area, which is where numerous severe thunderstorms are possible:

The adjacent area (shaded yellow) in parts of west-central and north-central Minnesota is where scattered severe thunderstorms are possible Sunday evening and overnight Sunday night. 

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR 

, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News 

 of the NWS will have updates on watches and warnings. As the storms track eastward overnight, the 

Scattered thunderstorms may linger into Monday morning in parts of northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Another batch of storms could develop in western and northern Minnesota late Monday.

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 77  this time of year. We hit 85 degrees at MSP International Airport Sunday afternoon, and some spots in the metro area could reach 95 degrees Monday afternoon.

Monday highs will be in the 90s in much of southern and central Minnesota and parts of the northwest, with mainly 80s elsewhere:

Monday dew points will be in the sticky 60s:

Winds remain strong on Monday, gusting over 25 mph in central and southern Minnesota:

Plotted values are in knots, with 23 knots equal to 26 mph.

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to hit around 80 degrees on Tuesday, followed by lower 70s Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall late Sunday afternoon along the Louisiana coast:

Here’s the cone of uncertainty for Cristobal’s track over the next few days:

The NHC issued updates every few hours, and the 

of the National Weather Service is another good source of Cristobal-related info.

Notice the remnants of Cristobal will track over Wisconsin and Lake Superior in a few days. It’s rare to have a post-tropical system move over Lake Superior:

It looks like some remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal will track over Wisconsin and parts of eastern Minnesota Tuesday and Tuesday night. Here’s the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model for Tuesday and Tuesday evening:

The Twin Cities office of the NWS has these forecast rain amounts Tuesday into Wednesday:

We’ll look forward to dry weather on Thursday and Friday!

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Ron Trenda

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The best chance of severe weather Sunday evening and Sunday night will be in northwestern Minnesota, but scattered severe thunderstorms are possible Sunday night in some other spots too. We have the forecast details, including a hot and humid Monday and plenty of rain on Tuesday.

Sunday night storms in northern and western Minnesota; hot and humid Monday

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