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Some OK weather for Mother’s Day; a warming trend this week
I’m always glad to see the weekend forecast improve. A few days ago, it looked like off and on showers would be a good bet for parts of Minnesota on Mother’s Day. The newest computer model info shows only an isolated shower chance on Sunday across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Southwestern Minnesota could…
Lots of 60s for Fishing Opener highs; milder temps ahead
I’m very happy that we don’t have last Wednesday’s weather for today’s fishing opener in Minnesota. Wednesday’s strong winds, cold temps and steady rains (with snow in parts of central and northeastern Minnesota) would have been hard to deal with! Temps will be slightly on the cool side of normal today, but we’ll take that. …
Milder temps Friday; fishing opener weather
Minnesota and western Wisconsin could see scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm Saturday evening.Occasional scattered showers are possible on Mother's Day.
Impressive rain and snow totals; temps rebound this weekend
Is the calendar broken? It was still snowing Thursday morning in Duluth, and their snow total from Wednesday p.m. into Thursday a.m. had reached 10.6 inches.  The 8.3 inches that they tallied on Wednesday was a new May 8 snowfall record in Duluth, beating the old record of 5 inches: Other snow totals in northeastern…
May snow tapers up north; milder weekend temps
The Twin Cities metro area will see some light rain showers, possibly mixed with a few flakes, Thursday morning, followed by dry weather most of the afternoon. An isolated sprinkle could develop late in the afternoon. It'll be a breezy day.