Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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 while you’re at it. The image below from 1:10 p.m. shows scattered showers favoring western Wisconsin. You can pan and zoom our radar to see precipitation at your location, across all of Minnesota, and beyond.

Today’s scattered rain and thunderstorms are courtesy of a weak, slow-moving low-pressure system tracking across southern Minnesota into Wisconsin.

NOAA’s WRF model shows developing rain and thunder cells this afternoon and evening from around the Twin Cities into Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota.

A few cells today could reach severe limits, especially south and east of the Twin Cities. 

 has laid out a marginal risk zone from the southeast Twin Cities back to Mankato and the I-90 corridor. It also covers southeast Minnesota, much of Wisconsin, and northern Iowa. 

Keep an eye out for possible strong to severe storms this evening in the risk zone. Stronger storms may pack heavy downpours, 60 mph winds, and hail. 

Heavy precipitation patterns in 2022 has erased one of Minnesota’s most severe droughts on record. Copious winter and spring precipitation played a big role. Check out how different the crop stress conditions look across Minnesota compared to last summer. 

While many of our lakes and rivers around the Twin Cities and central Minnesota are running low, it’s good to see most of the vegetation in Minnesota is lush green compared to last summer.

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Look for scattered storms to develop especially southeast from the Twin Cities area through this evening. 

Scattered rain and thunderstorms developing through this evening

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