Northwestern Minnesota has a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m.

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Southern Minnesota picked up some beneficial rainfall Wednesday morning. The system dropped an inch of rain at a few locations in southwestern Minnesota. Rainfall reports are still coming in as of this post. 

 as of early Wednesday morning, in inches:

Our rainfall pattern continues to look patchy this week. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale 3 km model suggests mainly dry weather until late Thursday night when a band of thunderstorms could sweep from near the Red River Valley Thursday evening to near the Twin Cities by around midnight.  

The latest model runs suggest a little midnight thunder is possible in or near the Twin Cities Thursday night into the wee hours of Friday morning. 

The forecast model loop below runs between 7 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday. 

Warmer temperatures will return to Minnesota this week. Highs will reach the mid-80s again in southern and western Minnesota, with a few 70s up north.

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Paul Huttner

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Some beneficial rain fell across southern Minnesota Wednesday morning. There are spotty rainfall chances this week.

Beneficial rain fell Wednesday across southern Minnesota

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