Scattered showers for Memorial Day
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Our Sunday evening will feature scattered showers and thunderstorms in Minnesota.
Some isolated areas of strong winds and hail are possible.
As always, you can monitor the weather on the Minnesota Public Radio network and the MPR news live weather blog.
Memorial Day
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Our Memorial Day will be cool and breezy.
Most of Minnesota will see some scattered showers at times, and north-central and northeastern Minnesota are expected to see the most minutes of shower activity.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential Memorial Day rain pattern:
The color chart to the right of the loop refers to the strength of the radar signal that returns to the radar, not to the amount of rainfall.
Highs will be in the 50s in northern Minnesota and parts of central Minnesota on Monday, with some lower 60s in the south:
Memorial Day weather extremes
The Twin Cities office of the NWS researched Memorial Day weather from 1938 through 2016.
In the Twin Cities, it has been as warm as 95 degrees on Memorial Day, and our low temp has been as cold as 37 degrees:
Measureable rain is seen on Memorial Day about one out of every three years in the Twin Cities.
Programming note
You can hear my live weather updates on Minnesota Public radio at 7:49 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and at 7:35 a.m. and 9:35 a.m. each Saturday and Sunday.