Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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A nearly perfect Thursday with normal temperatures and low dew points. Heat and humidity return Friday setting the stage for possible weekend rain and thunder.

Thursday will be just about perfect with comfortable dew points in the 50s, and high temperatures in the low to mid-80s south, 70s north. Muggy air returns, however, for Friday into the weekend.

Temperatures will also increase. Highs will be in the 90s again across southern and western Minnesota Friday.  

Scattered showers and storms will develop in northern Minnesota late Friday afternoon and evening and those showers will attempt to move south and east overnight Friday night. 

Saturday will bring some spotty storms with more potentially widespread scattered showers and storms Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The models are mixed, and given our very dry run nothing is guaranteed. But several models give drought-stricken areas significant rainfall. 

Here are four different model scenarios. Note that some are over one inch, others only around one-quarter of an inch.

We definitely need the moisture. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows the area of drought doubling across Minnesota from about 8.5 percent of Minnesota to 18 percent. Abnormally dry areas increased 14 percent. 

After the weekend, the overall pattern calls for hotter than normal temperatures and drier than normal precipitation. We could be near 90 again late next week.

But first, we should see a couple of cooler days Sunday and Monday.

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A nearly perfect Thursday with normal temperatures and low dew points. Heat and humidity return Friday setting the stage for possible weekend rain and thunder.


Comfortable Thursday; heating back up Friday; storm chances ahead

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