MPR News Update

MPR News Update, PM Edition for July 19, 2016

Good afternoon! This season is turning out to be the "Severe Summer of 2016" across Minnesota. Excessive heat and moisture surge north across Minnesota the next 72 hours. The inbound air mass is loaded with tropical energy capable of producing flash flood-triggering heavy downpours as the warm front oozes north tonight. So we have excessive heat and flash flooding. What next? Locusts? | Forecast

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