July preview ahead; trending dry again

Little or no rain for much of Minnesota for the next week

Forecast high temperatures Tuesday 2
Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The forecast maps are looking more July than late May into next week.

Our back door cool front (blowing in for the east) has dropped temperatures for a day. Highs will hover in the chilly 40s and 50s near Lake Superior Wednesday afternoon with bracing winds off a still-frigid Lake Superior.

Forecast high temperatures Wednesday
Forecast high temperatures Wednesday
NOAA

Temperatures will rebound quickly by the weekend. Highs will return to the 80s in western Minnesota Thursday.

Forecast high temperatures Thursday
Forecast high temperatures Thursday
NOAA

Highs will push well into the 80s across Minnesota this weekend.

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Forecast high temperatures Sunday
Forecast high temperatures Sunday
NOAA

And I won’t be surprised to see a 90-degree temperature in Minnesota next week.

Forecast high temperatures Tuesday 2
Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
NOAA

Dew points will remain in the comfortable 40s and 50s into the weekend, but They may reach the sticky 60s next week.

The weather pattern across the Upper Midwest looks dry well into next week.

Our low humidity, winds, and breezes are drying soils pretty quickly again. That’s good news for areas like southwestern Minnesota that saw 4 to 8 inches of rain in the past couple of weeks. But many lawns, gardens, and fields could use some water.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts model is in consensus with many other forecast models that show little precipitation across most of Minnesota into next week.

European model (ECMWF) precipitation output
Precipitation output forecast through Sunday
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, via Pivotal Weather

Stay tuned.