Scattered severe storms Thursday afternoon & night, gorgeous Labor Day weekend

While the forecast stays mild today into tonight, a Forecast First Alert is in place due to the risk for severe storms tomorrow. Scattered severe storms are especially possible Thursday afternoon and night, especially before midnight.

Today and tonight remain muggy with mostly dry skies and some patchy fog late overnight into early tomorrow morning. Overnight tonight, isolated storms and showers are possible across far northwestern and west-central Minnesota.

Scattered showers and storms are possible Thursday morning, but the coverage isn’t widespread. Storm chances are likely Thursday afternoon and night, with damaging winds, hail and few tornadoes possible. Heavy rainfall at times is expected, especially where we have a strong storm or two. Most of the metro could see up to 1″ of rainfall with locally higher totals where we see severe storms.

Tomorrow it’s again hot and humid, with temperatures in the mid-80s and dewpoint covering around 70 degrees. Behind tomorrow’s storm system and attendant cold front, you’ll notice a dramatic drop in humidity by Friday.

Friday’s high temperatures are in the upper-70s, with dry skies and comfortable humidity. Friday morning, we could see some linger cloud cover across southeastern Minnesota. Otherwise, most of the day is sunny.

Your Labor Day weekend forecast looks amazing! We’ll see sunny skies Saturday through Labor Day, with comfortable temperatures and humidity. Saturday features summer-like warmth in the mid to low-80s. Then temperatures drop back into the low-70s for highs Sunday into Labor Day.

Have a wonderful day!

Wren