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Clouds, showers Tuesday in southern Minnesota; heating up next week

Isolated shower, more clouds Tuesday

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Total forecast precipitation into early Thursday
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather

Most showers and isolated thunderstorms will be confined to southern Minnesota Tuesday into Tuesday night. We’ll have more clouds south and temperatures will be a few degrees cooler than Monday. Northern Minnesota will see more sunshine.

Somewhat unsettled into Tuesday night

We’ll have a cloudier day Tuesday in southern Minnesota with a few showers. The most numerous showers will be across far southern Minnesota.

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Forecast precipitation Tuesday into Wednesday morning
College of DuPage

We could even see a few thunderstorms pop up in the southern most counties of Minnesota late Tuesday afternoon. There’s a marginal risk (level 1 out of 5) for severe weather.

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Severe weather risk late Tuesday
National Weather Service

The 36-hour total precipitation forecast shows that most measurable rainfall remains south. That doesn’t mean we won’t see showers in the Twin Cities, just that they’ll be brief and insignificant most likely.

High temperatures Tuesday will be a bit cooler with more clouds around though northern Minnesota will have more sun and highs near 70 degrees away from Lake Superior.

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Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
National Weather Service

Warming up next week

Wednesday will again be a little warmer, in the mid 70s as we see decreasing clouds and a mainly dry day.

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Forecast high temperatures Wednesday
National Weather Service

We start to see a real shift in our pattern this weekend into next week with more consistent summer weather. Highs should top 80 degrees by Sunday into next week.

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Forecast high temperatures next Monday
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather

In fact the six- to 10-day outlook shows this warming trend at least in the central and southern U.S. I do think we’ll see above-normal temperatures with even the chance of 90 degrees in southern Minnesota.

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6- to 10-day outlook for temperatures
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Prediction Center