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It’s another cool and slightly soggy spring day across southern Minnesota. 

A weak low-pressure system is spawning scattered showers. Most of the precipitation is light. NOAA’s NAM 3 km resolution model paints the rain zone from the Twin Cities southward toward the Iowa border. The forecast model loop below runs between 3 pm and midnight. 

Rainfall totals with this system will be light. Most areas will see less than .25” of rain by late tonight. Here’s the European model rainfall output through 7 am Thursday. 

The bright spot in our forecast this week is that most of the days will be sunny. Sunshine returns Thursday and into much of the weekend across most of Minnesota. Highs near 60 south, and in the 50s north will be common. 

So our forecast looks cool but pleasant. 

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

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A weak low-pressure system is dropping some light rain today.

NOAA NAM 3 km model from 3 pm Wednesday to midnight Thursday

NOAA via tropical tidbits

European model (ECMWF) precipitation output

Scattered showers moving across southern Minnesota into this evening

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