Rains taper off Friday, Saturday's mostly dry; active weather returns next week
Sunday will be warmer
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Rain will taper off Friday, but we’ll have more pop-up showers and thunder possible later in the day. Saturday will be mostly dry but we head back into an active pattern afterward.
Rain tapers off Friday; more possible next week
Most areas are waking up to 1 to 2 inches of new rainfall across the Twin Cities, but the heaviest totals are coming in from the west and south where a band of 2 to 4, plus inches fell through 8 a.m. Friday.
The highest total reported thus far is a whopping 6.86 inches near Clara City in eastern Chippewa county. Willmar received 3.94 inches, 3.58 inches in Appleton, 3.36 inches in Glencoe, 3.05 inches in Montevideo and 2.84 inches in Welch, south of the Twin Cities metro area. Through 9 a.m., the Twin Cities has officially received 1.15 inches at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Our latest round of rainfall will taper off through the morning hours Friday, but we’ll see the potential for more spotty showers and thunder popping up Friday afternoon and evening.
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It’ll be cool in areas that see rain linger the longest in central and northeastern Minnesota with highs there in the 50s. Closer to the warm front in far southern Minnesota, highs will reach the low 80s.
Saturday will be mostly dry. An isolated shower can’t be ruled out, and we’ll have quite a bit of lingering cloud cover. The best chance will be southeast and west.
I think we’ll see increasing peeks of sun Saturday afternoon and that’ll help push highs into the 70s. Sunday will be warmer as we see a few more peeks of sun and the same frontal boundary creating the weather over the past 24 hours moves a bit more north again.
Don’t get to used to the dry break. Spotty thunderstorms are again possible Saturday night and Sunday, and we could be in an active pattern into at least Monday and Tuesday. Monday could also bring severe storms.
It will be warmer however, with highs in the low 80s for southern Minnesota to 70s north most of the week.
