Marginal severe risk Saturday afternoon; hottest temps of summer coming

An area of showers is drifting southeast Saturday with more thunderstorm development in the afternoon. Some isolated storms could become strong to severe. A heat wave develops for next week.

Hit and miss thunderstorms with a marginal severe risk Saturday

A cluster of clouds and showers is drifting southeast Saturday morning, sparked by an upper level disturbance. With day time heating and a subtle increase in dew points thunderstorms will redevelop Saturday afternoon and evening.

The showers will be hit and miss so don’t expect much drought relief but a couple storms could turn severe. We have a marginal risk (level 1 out of 5) of severe storms for southern Minnesota Saturday afternoon and evening. The main threats would be some large hail and an isolated high wind gust.

High temperatures Saturday will reach the mid 80s south to mid 70s north.

Dew points will be slightly higher too, helping to fuel the spotty thunderstorm development.

Get ready for a hot stretch of weather

High temperatures Sunday will be several degrees warmer, in the upper 80s south to upper 70s north with mainly sunny skies across most of Minnesota.

We’re then in for a stretch of rather hot weather, potentially the hottest of this summer Monday through at least Friday of next week. The Southwest heat dome will be finally moving east, bringing a string of 90s to southern Minnesota.

The peak of the heat looks to be Wednesday or Thursday when highs will reach the upper 90s, possibly near 100 for some places in southern and western Minnesota.

Don’t look for much in the way of rainfall next week either, meaning the drought will almost certainly worsen across the state.