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Showers return Friday with thunderstorms possible next week
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Well, it was a cool one this morning, felt more like September than July, but temperatures will
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be warming back up next week. In fact, we could be talking heat and more thunderstorms, but first,
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another system develops more showers Friday.
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So, pretty chilly this morning. 40s across northern Minnesota, low 50s, and even some
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40s in southern Minnesota. Both the Twin Cities and International Falls, in fact, tied record
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lows for the date. 52 in the Twin Cities, 42 in International Falls. But this is a rarity.
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Since the year 2000, we've only done this three times. So, two, this is just the second one since
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2010, but look at how many more frequent cool nights we had prior to the year 2000. Just in the 1990s
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alone, 16 times in the months of July, it was 52 degrees or cooler. So, these cool nights have
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become very rare here in the middle of summer. We do have sunshine today through some fair weather
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cumulus clouds out there. So, partly cloudy through the day today, but you can see the clouds off to
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the west. That's the next system moving in for tomorrow. Low to mid 70s for highs. These are
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good 10 degrees cooler than the average for the date. So, yeah, it is a little cool. And especially
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with that very dry air, dew points in the 40s and 50s, making it feel even cooler. But our next system
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is going to be a piece of energy breaking off this upper level low. You can see in western Montana and
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into western Canada. That will already bring some showers to northern and western Minnesota by the
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morning hours tomorrow. And then as we head into the afternoon and evening hours, we could see some
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thunderstorms develop late afternoon and evening here at 7, 8 p.m. Perhaps some storms here in the
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southern part of the state. And then those will move out overnight tomorrow night. Looks like it will clear
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us here still by early Saturday. But there is even a marginal risk, level one out of five,
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that in southern Minnesota, we could see one or two rogue strong storms that could produce maybe
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some large hail or a damaging wind gust. But we'll start the day Saturday cloudy, sunshine for the
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midday and afternoon. Highs will be back close to 80 here in southern Minnesota and looks fairly similar
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on Sunday too. And then we're talking about the humidity and heat building back in. It is still late
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July. The Gulf of Mexico is open back up. Dew points will be in the 70s again by the middle of next
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week. And we're gonna be on the northern edge of this next heat dome developing. So it was hot on
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the coast this week. Next week, it's the central part of the country's turn again, particularly the
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central plains, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri. That's where we'll see triple digit highs
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probably Tuesday and Wednesday. But for us on the northern edge, upper 80s to low 90s. So still pretty warm,
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but probably not quite heat advisory criteria. But that is going to set us up into this ring of fire
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pattern where we are on the northern edge of the heat dome. And that produces showers and
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thunderstorms that kind of circulate around that upper level high, every little disturbance rides
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up and over that ridge. So northern and eastern parts of the ridge, we could be looking at some
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occasional thunderstorm chances is pretty typical for late summer, we call these mesoscale convective
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systems or mesoscale convective complexes. These develop at night, you get that low level jet winds
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above the ground 4000 feet accelerate on the edge of that hot air and it produces these overnight storms
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that we're familiar with late summer. Those are the kind that wake you up at three, four in the morning
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can produce some straight line winds, heavy rainfall up to a 10th of our annual rainfall comes from
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these types of storms late summer overnight storms. Not today though 75 plenty of sun tomorrow, some
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afternoon evening storms possible, especially tomorrow evening and overnight. Still on the coolish side of
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normal, but closer to normal temperatures this weekend. Again, the weekend looking pretty good
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here, especially Saturday afternoon and Sunday and then temperatures are cranking back up along with
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the humidity next week with again, those kind of thunder chances every 12 to 24 hours.
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