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Rainy week gives way to a spectacular weekend
The trade off for our rainy mid-week run? A sunny, dry and pleasantly cool spring weekend. Friday through Sunday look mostly sunny with light winds Friday and Saturday. Low 60s could be conservative this weekend.
Severe weather awareness week
We’ve already seen our first tornadoes of the year in Minnesota, on March 6. The 3 tornadoes that day set a new record for the earliest tornadoes ever observed in Minnesota. Thankfully, the March 6 tornadoes didn’t cause any fatalities. Severe weather awareness week As we move into the warmer days of spring, we see more frequent thunderstorms.…
Sunny and breezy Sunday; red flag warning western Minn.
Our Friday and Saturday rainfall total at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 1.30 inches. I’m going to have to rummage through my garage and find my lawnmower this week! Rochester recorded a Friday-Saturday rainfall total of .52″, St. Cloud received .33″, but Duluth saw only .01″. Mild temps Our average high temp is 58 degrees…
Some Saturday evening thunder; bright and breezy Sunday
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will move across Minnesota Saturday evening. The Storm Prediction Center of the NWS shows a marginal risk of severe weather this Saturday evening and Saturday night for the far southern part of the Twin Cities metro area and for much of southern Minnesota: A marginal risk indicates that an isolated severe thunderstorm…
Saturday rain and thunder; bright and dry on Sunday
It’s ducky weather to start our weekend. Rain totals from Friday evening through Saturday morning approached one inch in parts of the Twin Cities metro area. Saturday morning’s steady rains will be followed by occasional periods of scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon and evening in southern and central Minnesota and the Twin Cities metro area.…
Showers and thunder at times; bright and dry Sunday
Occasional showers are possible Friday and Friday night over southern and central Minnesota, with a few embedded thunderstorms also possible. Northern Minnesota should stay mostly dry through early Friday evening, with scattered showers overnight Friday night.
Rain, rain, go away?
Several bouts of rain ahead. The pattern over the next two weeks continues to look very wet.