Showers and T-Storms developing this evening

In Minnesota weather it seems there's always a "front" in out forecast. This one is a cold front. It sags south into the Twin Cities Tuesday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms develop along and ahead of the front this evening from the Twin Cities southeast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model captures the essence.

Rainfall with the frontal passage this evening will be heaviest in southeastern Minnesota where one-half inch to 1 inch may fall. The Twin Cities rides the edge of the rain shield.

Severe risk south

The biggest severe risk lays out across southeastern Minnesota.

Feels like spring

Highs in the 60s and 70s hang around the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota for the next week.

Fourth coldest April

Monday's 84-degree warmth spared the Twin Cities from finishing as the second coldest April on record.

Skywarn training

Glacial wildcard

Chris Mooney from the Washington Post writes about a project that may tell us how this one glacier will impact sea levels in the next century.

The largest U.S.-British Antarctic mission in seven decades officially launched at an event in Cambridge on Monday, as the two countries pooled dollars and scientific resources for missions to West Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier — a Florida-size ice body that, scientists fear, could flood the world’s coastlines in our lifetimes.