Sunday night storms in northern and western Minnesota; hot and humid Monday

Parts of northwestern Minnesota saw some severe thunderstorms late Sunday afternoon. Additional severe weather is possible in northwestern Minnesota Sunday evening and into the overnight hours of Sunday night.

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch which continues until 10 p.m. this Sunday in eastern North Dakota and much of northwestern Minnesota:

Severe weather, including large hail, damaging thunderstorm winds and tornadoes will be possible in and close to the watch area.

Here’s the SPC severe weather outlook for Sunday evening and overnight Sunday night:

The tornado watch covers much of the enhanced risk area, which is where numerous severe thunderstorms are possible:

The adjacent area (shaded yellow) in parts of west-central and north-central Minnesota is where scattered severe thunderstorms are possible Sunday evening and overnight Sunday night.

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR network, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

The Grand Forks office of the NWS will have updates on watches and warnings. As the storms track eastward overnight, the Duluth office of the NWS will have updates.

Scattered thunderstorms may linger into Monday morning in parts of northern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Another batch of storms could develop in western and northern Minnesota late Monday.

Steamy Monday

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 77 this time of year. We hit 85 degrees at MSP International Airport Sunday afternoon, and some spots in the metro area could reach 95 degrees Monday afternoon.

Monday highs will be in the 90s in much of southern and central Minnesota and parts of the northwest, with mainly 80s elsewhere:

Monday dew points will be in the sticky 60s:

Winds remain strong on Monday, gusting over 25 mph in central and southern Minnesota:

Plotted values are in knots, with 23 knots equal to 26 mph.

Cooler temps the remainder of the week

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to hit around 80 degrees on Tuesday, followed by lower 70s Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Tropical Storm Cristobal

Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall late Sunday afternoon along the Louisiana coast:

Here’s the cone of uncertainty for Cristobal’s track over the next few days:

The NHC issued updates every few hours, and the New Orleans/Baton Rouge office of the National Weather Service is another good source of Cristobal-related info.

Notice the remnants of Cristobal will track over Wisconsin and Lake Superior in a few days. It’s rare to have a post-tropical system move over Lake Superior:

Heavy rain Tuesday and Tuesday night

It looks like some remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal will track over Wisconsin and parts of eastern Minnesota Tuesday and Tuesday night. Here’s the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model for Tuesday and Tuesday evening:

The Twin Cities office of the NWS has these forecast rain amounts Tuesday into Wednesday:

This from the NWS La Crosse office:

We’ll look forward to dry weather on Thursday and Friday!