Hot Friday; heavy rain potential this weekend
Hotter and more humid Friday; thunderstorms develop Saturday
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Nineties return to southern Minnesota Friday with gusty south winds. Showers and thunderstorms develop for the weekend with the potential for locally heavy rain. Cooler temperatures set in Sunday into Monday.
Hot, humid, windy Friday
Heat and humidity return Friday. High temperatures will be back in the 90s for much of southern Minnesota.
The increase in moisture and heat will be aided by gusty south winds through the day.
Potential for locally heavy rain this weekend
Northern Minnesota will see a few showers and thunderstorms already later Friday afternoon and evening. Storms will continue to develop along a slow moving cool front that will drop across Minnesota into Sunday morning.
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Precipitable water content, the amount of total water in the atmospheric column, will be at very high levels Saturday so there’s a risk of very heavy rainfall events in some spots.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center forecasts a slight risk for excessive rainfall this weekend.
Many places in southern Minnesota into western Wisconsin could see 1 to 2 inches of rainfall but locally higher amounts are likely.
It is impossible to pinpoint exactly where several inches of rain could fall, but the models do hint at somewhere in southern Minnesota, western Wisconsin into northern Iowa getting more than 4 inches in isolated areas.
