Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. 

Turn Up Your Support

Much of Minnesota needs rain. The good news? Scattered thundershowers will drift slowly south across parts of west-central Minnesota overnight into Thursday.

But coverage will be spotty and localized, and much of eastern Minnesota and probably the Twin Cities will miss out on the rain. 

As of this post late Wednesday afternoon, a batch of showers and thunderstorms is dropping some rain around Bemidji and Park Rapids in north-central Minnesota. The cells are drifting slowly south and producing local downpours and lightning. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NAM 3 km resolution model continues the trend of scattered thundershowers drifting southward into Thursday. The loop at the top of this post runs between midnight Wednesday and 4 p.m. Thursday.

Forecast models continue the trend of dryness across most of Minnesota over the next week. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model for the next 10 days favors abundant rainfall across western South Dakota but little rain for Minnesota. 

NOAA’s 6 to 10-day precipitation outlook favors average to drier-than-average precipitation across our region.

And the temperature outlooks continue to show a warm bias.

Minnesota rode the edge of one of Canada’s warmest Mays on record. So far in June, the Twin Cities region is running a remarkable 13 degrees warmer than average.

Weather and Climate News

Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

Author

Coverage will be spotty and localized, and much of eastern Minnesota and probably the Twin Cities will miss out on the rain. 

Scattered thundershowers across western Minnesota into Thursday

Go Deeper.

Like this?