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00:00Dry and relatively comfortable yet today with sunshine, but the chance of thunder increases

00:04already tomorrow and especially for Friday, but all out of here in time for a pleasant looking weekend.

00:19So temperatures today back in the mid-80s for southern and western Minnesota, upper 70s to

00:24northeast and those dew points still relatively comfortable for July, low 60s at times here in

00:30southern Minnesota, 50s to the north, but those muggier dew points are going to be rolling back in

00:34here tonight into tomorrow and where those dew points are increasing already, we've had clusters

00:39of clouds, showers and storms just to our west in the Dakotas and far western Minnesota and that will

00:44be kind of the trend here moving eastward tonight into tomorrow. So by the early morning hours tomorrow

00:50getting pretty soupy here in western Minnesota, those dew points near 70 and that will be the trend

00:54through the day tomorrow, mid to upper 60s, maybe 70 degree dew points in the Twin Cities

00:58by Thursday evening, but that's all going to move out behind this system Saturday. Dryer air moves in,

01:04that'll stabilize things just in time for Saturday and Sunday. So we're tracking that upper level low

01:09here, it's moving across northern California, not made a lot of progress. Yesterday at this time we

01:13showed you it was just off the coast of California, but it is going to start to move quicker, getting

01:18carried into the upper level winds here, so that will be, that feature will be moving in tomorrow night

01:22and that's going to produce those more widespread showers and thunderstorms. These short waves or

01:27upper level lows, remember just cool air lofts, they just generate instability by allowing that warm

01:31humid air to rise and produce showers and storms, which we may already see early tomorrow and late

01:36tomorrow. Could see some isolated storms. Most of the activity in western Minnesota tonight and tomorrow,

01:41but Thursday we can't rule out a couple of them here in the eastern part of the state too. Mid 80s for highs again,

01:46upper 80s close to 90 in the western part of the state. The better widespread chance of showers and

01:52storms comes tomorrow night into Friday. Looks like we could see some activity early and then again late

01:57in the day Friday. Models still kind of all over the place as far as timing and coverage of these

02:02showers and storms though, so there's sort of a medium confidence forecast here, but it does look

02:08as though we're going to see another inch to an inch and a half of rainfall and really at any point Friday

02:12a shower or thunderstorm is possible, but it is looking like the better chance will come later

02:16in the day. So Thursday night and later in the day Friday into Friday night and a pretty low severe

02:21risk. Slight risk to the west and the Dakotas today and tomorrow, but starting to move into

02:26northwestern Minnesota Thursday. Friday a marginal risk here across the state, so low risk of severe

02:32storms. That's the good news. Looks like mainly garden variety showers and storms, but there could be one

02:36or two storms that produce some high wind gusts or large hail. We'll have to watch some of the

02:41instability indicators. Friday will have plenty of juice in the atmosphere. It's just a matter of

02:45organizing those storms into severe storms. This is a look at the European model, kind of has those

02:50storms midday and then in the evening and overnight hours. So a little different timing than some of the

02:55other models, just to give you an idea that it's really anyone's game here Friday. It's just going to

03:00be unstable basically, but behind it Saturday dropping humidity, clearing skies, 80 degrees or so.

03:08Pretty nice for us timing it out here in the weekend with dry sunny weather. A little warmer again

03:14Sunday, especially Monday, but sandwiching the weekend here with shower and thunderstorm chances

03:20Friday. And then again, looks like by Tuesday of next week.

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