High pressure brings sunshine and lighter winds Wednesday
Thursday will be warmer, but it will also become windy again
Updated 9 a.m.
Skies will be sunny and winds will be calmer Wednesday. Thursday will be warmer and windy ahead of a storm system that will bring significant rainfall Friday into the weekend.
High pressure Wednesday brings light winds, sun
Don’t blink — we’ll have light winds for one day Wednesday. High pressure centered over Lake Superior will keep skies sunny across Minnesota and also make for lighter wind speeds, generally under 10 mph.
We’ll still be on the cooler side but near normal for highs. Eastern Minnesota will be mostly in the 50s with colder readings near Lake Superior. Western Minnesota will see highs in the 60s.
Wednesday night won’t be as cold but it will be subfreezing again in northeastern Minnesota.
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Thursday will be warmer with many parts of southern and western Minnesota back to near 70 degrees.
The winds increase again Thursday and Friday ahead of the next storm system that looks to bring significant rainfall to the region. Wind gusts could be over 40 mph again especially Friday.
We’re in for two waves of rain and thunderstorms. The first starts Friday with a break for much of Saturday. The second system then moves in Sunday into early Monday.
Total rainfall could easily exceed 2 inches with the two waves. Northern Minnesota too, could finally see some decent rains.
We’ll also need to watch how far north the severe weather threat develops. On Friday it looks to remain mostly in Iowa though a marginal risk (level 1 of 5) is forecast for Friday into Friday night for far southern Minnesota.
Saturday into Saturday night the extended forecast risk clips far southeast Minnesota.
Next week looks warm as we start May with highs mostly in the 70s south to 60s north.