Rain fills in west to east with more storms Friday; weekend's dry

Scattered rain showers will spread east into the overnight Thursday into Friday. We’ll see a mostly midday break Friday before storms develop in the afternoon and evening again.  

Periods of rain, thunder into Friday; dry weekend

Rain showers will continue to fill in and track east across southern Minnesota and fill in more tonight north. This will be round one of light to moderate rain showers. 

We’ll get a midday break Friday with perhaps a few peeks of sunshine, which will help to develop more showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening Friday. 

A couple of storms that do develop Friday could turn strong to severe. There’s a slight risk (level 2 of 5) for severe weather Friday into Friday night across far southern Minnesota with a marginal (level 1 of 5) risk elsewhere.

While most of us should see about an inch or less of rainfall in southern Minnesota there could be locally heavier amounts in some of the thunderstorms later in the day. Northern Minnesota looks most likely to see more widespread rainfall over an inch or slightly more.

We’ll have to watch for locally heavier rainfall amounts. There are a couple forecast models pushing out some localized 2 to 3 inch rainfalls, which if they occur in parts of southern Minnesota could be concerning.

Where any heavier rains set up will be critical as rivers are near their highest levels and additional rainfall could cause them to go up yet again this weekend into next week.

The weekend continues to look dry although cooler than normal with highs mostly in the 70s. Northern Minnesota likely will only see highs in the 60s Saturday. 

The next chance of thunder develops late Monday for the first day of July.