Mild today, scattered storms early tomorrow with a cool-down

Good afternoon! Temperatures top off in the low-80s today with mostly sunny skies for the Twin Cities. A cold front in northwestern Minnesota tracks eastward tonight into Thursday morning. Scattered showers and storms are possible tonight before midnight across northwestern Minnesota.

The Twin Cities has the chance for scattered showers and storms mainly past 2 am and into the morning commute. While the coverage of the storms won’t be widespread, isolated strong to severe storms are possible with damaging winds and hail being the main threats.

Tomorrow is cooler in the mid-70s, and breezy with northwesterly winds behind the front. Air quality will be worse Thursday as smoke from Canadian wildfires filters in first across northwestern Minnesota (where an Air Quality Alert is in place tonight through tomorrow morning).

Isolated showers and weak storms are possible Thursday afternoon and evening, this is a slight chance. We keep the slight chance for a spotty shower early Friday. Count on a cool-down into Friday with highs in the mid to upper-60s Friday into Saturday.