Few showers Monday; hot by the end of the week

We’ll have a few scattered morning showers Monday with the possibility of isolated thunder in the afternoon. Winds are picking up from the northwest, dropping dew points. Expect heat by the end of the week.

Unsettled Monday as cold front brings change

Winds will pick up Monday as a cool front ushers in some drier air. Northwest winds will be at 15-25 mph Monday afternoon with gusts as high as 40 mph for some.

We have a few showers ahead of the front and a couple of thunderstorms are possible Monday afternoon, too.

Dry weather continues in south central Minnesota, Twin Cities

A few spots received some beneficial rainfall over the weekend, but many of us were left needing much more. Some northeastern suburbs got 1 inch, while the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport received just one-tenth of an inch over the weekend.

It continues to be very dry across most of south-central Minnesota through the Twin Cities area into western Wisconsin. Northern Minnesota remains above normal for precipitation and far southern Minnesota got lucky with heavy rains last week.

Heat wave ahead

We get a nice break of seasonable temperatures and lower dew points Tuesday into Wednesday. After that the heat dome is going to park itself closer to Minnesota by the end of the week, and this means it’s going to get hot and steamy for a while.

Highs from Friday through next weekend into the following week will be near or above 90 degrees for much of southern and western Minnesota.