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Southern and southwest Minnesota saw the bulk of the weekend rainfall. We’ll have a couple more chances of rain this week with near-normal temperatures. Friday and Saturday will be cooler.

If your rain gauge wasn’t very full, you were not alone. The rains over the weekend were highly variable in the Twin Cities metro with some lucky spots getting nearly an inch, but most received a fraction of that. The real “winner” was south central and southwest Minnesota into portions of northwest Minnesota.

Fairmont picked up 2.74 inches of rain while the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport received just 0.30 inches and St. Paul picked up only 0.04 inches.

We could have an isolated shower or thundershower late Monday in southern Minnesota with lingering moisture and instability from the weekend.

A frontal boundary will touch off the next chance of some showers and thunder for mainly the northern third of Minnesota late Tuesday into Tuesday night. The chance will be more isolated farther south into central Minnesota Wednesday.

The next best chance will come late Thursday into early Friday as a cold front moves across the state. This will bring a statewide chance of showers and thunderstorms.

Warm start to the week but cooler end of week

The first half of the week will be warm with near normal, or even slightly above normal high temperatures. We’ll be in the mid 80s south on Monday to upper 70s north.

Tuesday will see pretty similar high temperatures.

Behind the cold front it will be cooler Friday and Saturday, especially in northern Minnesota where some places will remain in just the 60s for high temperatures.

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Sven Sundgaard

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Southern and southwest Minnesota saw the bulk of the weekend rainfall. We’ll have a couple more chances of rain this week with near-normal temperatures. Friday and Saturday will be cooler.


Weekend rains were variable and heaviest south; more chances this week

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