Evening storms western Minnesota, arriving past midnight for the Twin Cities

Good evening! Scattered showers and storms stay in the forecast this evening across the western half of the state of Minnesota. Isolated strong to severe storms are possible across west-central and southwestern Minnesota this evening mainly before sunset, with hail and damaging winds being the primary threats.

Showers and storms that don’t look to be severe, move into eastern Minnesota overnight mainly past midnight. The cold front that’s tracking eastward in from the Dakotas stalls over Minnesota tomorrow afternoon into Saturday. This means that in addition to scattered rain and storms off and on tomorrow morning, we now keep scattered storms in the forecast Friday afternoon as well as overnight into Saturday morning. From tonight through Saturday morning we could grab 0.5″ to 1.0″ of rainfall. At least your Friday forecast won’t be breezy and high temperatures are seasonably in the mid to low-70s.

We’ll end up with partly to mostly sunny skies by Saturday afternoon. Sunday is muggy and warm with partly to mostly cloudy skies. Storm chances return to western Minnesota Sunday afternoon, with the likely chance for evening and overnight Sunday storms. We could see a few strong storms Sunday night.

Have a wonderful evening!

Wren