Beneficial rain fell Wednesday across southern Minnesota
Spotty rainfall chances ahead.
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Southern Minnesota picked up some beneficial rainfall Wednesday morning. The system dropped an inch of rain at a few locations in southwestern Minnesota. Rainfall reports are still coming in as of this post.
Here are some select rainfall totals as of early Wednesday morning, in inches:
Okabena, 1.2
Hendricks, 1
Worthington, .89
Jackson, .85
Slayton, .76
Tracy, .59
Spotty rainfall chances this week
Our rainfall pattern continues to look patchy this week.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale 3 km model suggests mainly dry weather until late Thursday night when a band of thunderstorms could sweep from near the Red River Valley Thursday evening to near the Twin Cities by around midnight.
The latest model runs suggest a little midnight thunder is possible in or near the Twin Cities Thursday night into the wee hours of Friday morning.
The forecast model loop below runs between 7 p.m. Thursday and 1 a.m. Friday.
Warmer temperatures will return to Minnesota this week. Highs will reach the mid-80s again in southern and western Minnesota, with a few 70s up north.
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