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If you’re looking for a completely dry day, you may have to wait until Monday.

A low pressure system was sitting over northwestern Iowa Saturday evening, with bands of rain spiraling northward into Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin.. The low will move slowly to the east-northeast Saturday evening through Sunday. Periods of rain will continue over much of Minnesota and portions of Wisconsin Saturday evening through Sunday morning, with a few embedded thunderstorms at times. 

The steadiest rain may slide off into northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin as we go through Sunday afternoon. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 7 a.m. Sunday to 11 p.m. on Sunday:

NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh (HRRR) model shows a similar Sunday/Sunday evening rain pattern:

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News 

, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News 

Flood warnings continue along the Red River and along some smaller rivers in northwestern Minnesota. Other portions of northwestern Minnesota (shaded light green) are under flood warnings through Sunday:

A flood watch (dark green) continues in much of northwestern Minnesota through Sunday.

You can get flood warning details by clicking on any location at the NWS 

. Here are details of the flood watch that continues into Sunday morning  in portions of northwestern Minnesota:

The NWS has posted these flood safety tips:

A flood watch continues through Sunday evening along and near the North Shore of Lake Superior:

A flood warning has been issued for the Mississippi River at Aitkin, Minnesota:

 site shows river gauges across our region. You can click on any gauge at that site to get recent and current river levels plus the forecast levels over the next few days.

Much of Minnesota will have Sunday highs in the 40s. There’ll be some lower 50s from southeastern Minnesota into western Wisconsin:

Some spots in the Twin Cities metro area will touch 50 degrees.

Sunday afternoon wind gusts could be in the 25 to 30 mph range in portions of western and south-central Minnesota:

Forecast gusts are in knots, with 20 knots equal to 23 mph.

Back to temperatures, Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the lower 50s Monday, followed by mid 50s Tuesday, around 60 Wednesday, then lower 60s Thursday and mid 60s on Friday.

Here’s a warm thought: Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 64 degrees on May 1 and it is 74 degrees by May 31.

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Ron Trenda

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Periods of rain are expected Saturday evening through Sunday morning, with some embedded thunderstorms at times. We have your weekend forecast update and a look at the week ahead.

Periods of rain Saturday evening into Sunday AM; flooding update for northern Minn.

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