Forecast: Minnesota is about to bounce between warm and wet weather

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00:00Well, we take a look at the recent precipitation with this system that affected mostly northern

00:04Minnesota, including some fresh snowfall there, a break from the wet weather for a couple of days

00:08with a warming trend, but more rain, even thunder possible Thursday into Thursday night.

00:22So most of the precip the last few days of the system was confined in northeastern Minnesota.

00:27That's where we had anywhere from a quarter to half inch, three quarters of an inch of precip.

00:31And you can kind of see some of that very light precip that generally fell with some of the showers that

00:35developed yesterday. But snow did pan out for parts of northeastern Minnesota, mostly up into the

00:40boundary waters, a few inches of snow around Seagull Lake, about an inch around the Ely areas.

00:46Maybe that's the last one. The next couple of systems look to be mostly liquid, even for northern

00:51Minnesota. In April, we're already halfway through, if you can believe it. And it's kind of a mixed

00:55picture for temperatures and precip. Twin cities and southeastern Minnesota, we're seeing below

00:59normal precip for the first half of the month, while the North Shore and western Minnesota has

01:03seen above normal precip. And temperatures generally slightly below normal in southeastern

01:09and northeastern Minnesota, but above normal in the northwestern and southwestern part of the

01:12state. And the Twin Cities precisely on target for average temperatures for the month of April,

01:18for this first half anyway. We've got high pressure that kind of slid to the south,

01:22just to our west, so not fully in control of our weather. Still some low clouds left over in

01:27northeastern Minnesota, but overall, fairly bright skies here for the southern half of the state. We

01:31should keep things at least partly cloudy, more sunshine than clouds through the day today.

01:36And even into tomorrow, we'll see some high clouds move in later in the day that'll kind of filter out

01:40the sun a bit, but it's going to be warmer tomorrow too. And yeah, a pretty nice Wednesday on the way

01:45before that rain develops here for Thursday. Mostly in the 50s across southern Minnesota today, still

01:49just near 40 in the Arrowhead with that lingering moisture cloud cover up there. And it's going to

01:54be a cold night tonight. 30s across southern Minnesota, but upper teens in northeastern

01:59Minnesota, places like Ely, probably will be around 18, 19, 20 degrees overnight tonight. But 60s

02:05spreading across southern Minnesota tomorrow, 50s to the north, cooler along the north shore with the

02:10southeast flow developing off of the lake. It's going to keep things in the 40s the next couple of

02:14days. Well, we warm up into the upper 60s Thursday, low 70s in southwestern Minnesota,

02:18and that could help fuel maybe some thunderstorms late Thursday. We're going to see showers and

02:23thunderstorms kind of develop here midday Thursday. Not an all-day rain though. With

02:28temperatures in the 60s, you know it's not going to rain all day. But we're going to have kind of

02:31scattered showers and thunderstorms developing. And yeah, in the form of some thunder potentially

02:36here, especially midday Thursday, this is the lightning forecast from the European model.

02:40You can see some thunderstorms in that activity. But the risk of severe weather does look to stay to

02:45the south of us here. Iowa is the primary region we're watching for a slight risk. Level two out of

02:50five for severe storms Thursday into Thursday night with a marginal risk into the southern counties of

02:55the state. But looks like any thunderstorms that develop may be a hail threat for far southern

03:00Minnesota. Otherwise, garden variety thunderstorms for most of us. And this might eliminate our

03:05precip deficit. We're about a half inch behind for the first half of April. Well, the blend of the

03:10models brings us about a half inch of rain here Thursday into Thursday night, which could erase

03:14that if it pans up. And another system developing late Sunday into Monday will bring more rain. And

03:20then behind that, another shot of showers coming in for probably late Tuesday into Wednesday. So kind

03:25of an active pattern developing again by the end of the weekend into next week. 55 today though,

03:32pretty close to normal. Still breezy though. 10 to 20 mile an hour winds out of the northwest.

03:37Nice tomorrow though. Just again, some high clouds. 62 after a chilly start, but we do warm up in the

03:43afternoon. 67 Thursday. More clouds around and some of those scattered showers and thunderstorms

03:48developing. That system should pull out of here Friday. We should see sunshine again Saturday.

03:53Clouds increase Sunday. With that, again, chances some showers and maybe thunderstorms developing again

03:58late Sunday into Monday.

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