Scattered rain & storms tonight with heavy rainfall possible

Good evening and happy Friday! Scattered rain and storms stubbornly stay in the forecast across southern and eastern Minnesota into Wisconsin now into early tomorrow morning. While these storms don’t look to be severe, they are slow movers with a lot of moisture to work with. So southern and eastern Minnesota into Wisconsin could see some localized flooding if we have a storm or two sit over the same location for too long of a period of time.

Winds tonight are light and variable, but predominantly out of the south in the Twin Cities. Up North patchy fog is possible tonight into tomorrow morning. Due west and northwest of the Twin Cities, heavy rain and storms are not in the forecast overnight.

Your Saturday forecast starts out with mostly cloudy skies and a few scattered showers and isolated storms exiting the metro west to east. The east metro may have some lingering showers into the mid to late morning, but I expect most of the Twin Cities to be dry mid-morning into the lunch hour. We’ll see partial clearing into the afternoon with a few scattered and non-severe storms developing late afternoon and early evening. High temperatures tomorrow are back in the mid-70s for most.

Sunday is the day to watch for severe storms. Scattered showers and storms look likely Sunday afternoon, with severe storms first developing across western Minnesota late afternoon and evening. The severe weather threat looks greatest across the western half of Minnesota. However, Sunday evening and especially night, the Twin Cities could also see some severe thunderstorms.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Wren