Morning showers and thunder move east and skies will clear into the afternoon Friday. It will be humid with temperatures in the 80s south and 70s north.
Temperatures will be warmer Thursday and humid air will start to return to southwestern Minnesota and spread east overnight into Friday, touching off scattered thunderstorms.
We’ll have a fair amount of sunshine but warmer temperatures and higher dew points return. We’ll also have the chance of some overnight showers and thunderstorms Thursday night.
It’s been a hot and steamy week with some surprising pop-up storms. Let’s get the details and the forecast with MPR’s chief meteorologist Paul Huttner.
A nice Wednesday with sunshine and more stable conditions. Thursday will also bring sun but it will become a bit warmer with muggy air returning late in the day. We’ll have the chance of thunderstorms Thursday night into Friday. Heat builds in over the weekend.
A blustery cold front pushed a remarkable cloud formation across the Twin Cities on Tuesday night, prompting a flurry of social media postings and appreciation for the spectacle. MPR News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard says the cloud wasn’t threatening, even if it looked that way.
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