Gradual warming in Minnesota with no soaking rains in sight

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00:00Well, we've got another nice day today, a pretty pleasant Memorial weekend with just some isolated

00:04showers, and then things are gradually warming up next week. Next weekend will be more summer-like.

00:19So one of the things we're seeing with the recent rainfalls are the river levels rising,

00:24no surprise there, and we're not talking about any flooding, certainly not like a year ago when

00:28we were looking at a lot of rivers reaching flood stage, but it is interesting to see the water make

00:33its way into the river basins and increase those river levels. The Mississippi River up in St. Paul

00:38already up about two and a half feet, expected to go up another two feet, but flood stage is way up

00:43here, so we're not even close to the action stage. But you'll notice if you're like me and near our

00:49Mississippi or Minnesota rivers often that those river levels are rising. We'll also see a little

00:54increased cloud cover today, more of those fair weather cumulus clouds filling back in like

00:58yesterday afternoon, but also some high clouds coming in from the west. That system you see to

01:02the west is going to stay mostly to the west and south of Minnesota, maybe clipping southwestern

01:07Minnesota. But highs back in the 60s today, 50s into the Arrowhead, where we'll have a little bit

01:11more of that thicker afternoon cloud cover. And then tomorrow back into the 60s, mostly upper 60s across

01:16much of the state, partly cloudy skies yet again. So neither of these days are going to be

01:21completely sunny, but not overcast either. Sunday a little closer to 70 degrees, and Monday

01:27probably too. And Sunday, Monday looking like the maybe clearer and drier of the two or of the three

01:33days of the holiday weekend here with those temperatures starting to warm up a little bit

01:37more too. Now tomorrow we are going to see potential for some of these isolated and spotty showers,

01:41mostly in northern Minnesota. Just one or two models bring an isolated shower in the Twin Cities,

01:47but I do think they'll stay mostly in the northern part of the state. And then also that system

01:50to the west, bringing some showers to southwestern Minnesota. So you add it all up, even with those

01:55isolated showers to the north, we're looking at very light precip still over the course of Saturday,

02:00Sunday, Monday combined just for northern Minnesota, and then that system off to the west. But then

02:05another system, Tuesday, Wednesday, does make its way into southern Minnesota, it appears. But it's not

02:10going to be a repeat of the rain we had this last week, more showery. So some scattered showers

02:15driven especially by some of the daytime heating, both Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons. And temperatures

02:20will be a little cooler those days too with the increased cloud cover and some of those showers

02:25around. But as far as rainfall goes, again, not a soaker like we just had, but maybe a half inch to an

02:31inch of rain for parts of southern Minnesota Tuesday into Wednesday. But overall, that upper level ridge

02:36pattern to the west tries to build in here. We're still kind of stuck between it this weekend. And then

02:40next week, that ridge builds a little closer to Minnesota by the weekend. So temperatures should push up

02:46still close to near 80 degrees as we head into next Saturday and Sunday across southern Minnesota.

02:51That's above normal, but certainly warmer too. So we'll see what the timing is for those 80 degree

02:58readings. But it's certainly going to be on an upward trend, those temperatures through the week next

03:02week. 65 today, 68 tomorrow. Again, mostly isolated showers in northern Minnesota. Sunday, Monday looking

03:09beautiful. Then we'll see those showers Tuesday, Wednesday with the temperature trend overall back

03:14upward through the week next week with, again, 80 degree temperatures potentially by next Friday or

03:19Saturday.