Pleasant Tuesday; rain moves in Tuesday night

Clouds increase Tuesday, but mild ahead of rain

NWS precip
Forecast total precipitation Tuesday night into Wednesday
National Weather Service

Tuesday will bring nearly normal temperatures with increasing clouds ahead of rain that moves in Tuesday night into Wednesday.

Mild ahead of Wednesday rain

Our next storm system is already circulating a large area of showers to our south. The system will lift north through Tuesday.

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Our next storm system will be moving in from the south Tuesday night
College of DuPage

Ahead of it we’ll see a pleasant Tuesday with warmer temperatures and increasing clouds.

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Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
National Weather Service

Showers will march north into the southern most portions of Minnesota after dark and reach the Twin Cities by the very early morning hours Wednesday. Expect periods of rain through the day Wednesday.

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precip timing TUES
Showers move in Tuesday night through Wednesday
College of DuPage

Warming up but somewhat unsettled this weekend

Summerlike temperatures will be back for the weekend many consider the unofficial start to summer.  

NWs temp trends
Temperatures trend back upward by the weekend
National Weather Service

Along with the increase in temperature will come an increase in humidity. Dew points by Sunday will be pretty muggy.

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Forecast dew points by Sunday
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather

As the mid- and upper-level flow of the atmosphere becomes what we call “positively tilted,” or flowing southwest to northeast, we’ll see several possible minor disturbances ripple through the atmosphere touching off at least some thunderstorm chances over the weekend.

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Pieces of energy will be moving through the middle atmosphere toward Minnesota this weekend
College of DuPage

Neither day looks like a wash out but Sunday does look like probably the highest chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms by late in the day.