Frosty Friday morning to 80 degrees on Mother’s Day
Big warm up on the way this weekend.
Welcome to Minnesota. The Land of 10,000 Weather Whiplashes is ready to deliver another extreme temperature swing in the next few days.
We start with a frigid morning Friday. Temperatures will drop into the 30s across much of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Scattered frost could nip the far northeast Twin Cities exurbs like Forest Lake and North Branch.
Frost advisories and freeze warnings cover much of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin Friday morning.
Here a look at northeast Minnesota.
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Spotty storms Friday
Another cold front sweeps southeast across eastern Minnesota Friday. That will be enough to trigger a few spotty showers and thunderstorms. NOAA’s NAM 3 km model shows scattered cells drifting southeast along the front Friday afternoon.
A few of the cells could get feisty with some hail and high wind potential NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center paints a marginal severe risk across eastern Minnesota Friday.
Warmer weekend
The fishing opener and Mother’s Day weekend looks very nice. Other than an isolated storm chance Sunday, sunshine and warmer temperatures dominate.
Mother’s Day brings the warmest day. Highs will push into the 80s in the south, with plenty of 70s up north.
Northern Lights chance
A solar storm blasted multiple coronal mass ejections (CME) earthward this week.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) — a division of the National Weather Service — is monitoring the sun following a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that began on May 8. Space weather forecasters have issued a Severe (G4) Geomagnetic Storm Watch for the evening of Friday, May 10. Additional solar eruptions could cause geomagnetic storm conditions to persist through the weekend.
A large sunspot cluster has produced several moderate to strong solar flares since Wednesday at 5:00 am ET. At least five flares were associated with CMEs that appear to be Earth-directed. SWPC forecasters will monitor NOAA and NASA’s space assets for the onset of a geomagnetic storm.
Keep an eye out for possible northern lights, especially Friday night!