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Weather and Climate News

Periods of rain and thunder this Saturday; breezy and brighter on Sunday

Periods of rain and thunder this Saturday; breezy and brighter on Sunday

Rain will complicate some of your outdoor plans during the first half of this weekend. Minnesota and western Wisconsin will have periods of rain, with some embedded thunderstorms, this Saturday and Saturday evening. It’s good to remember that it doesn’t have to be raining at your location for lightning to strike you. Lightning can strike…
by Ron Trenda

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Forget April showers and May flowers -- we went from blizzards to sweltering heat

The results are in: May 2018 clocked in as the third-warmest in Minnesota history. It was a climatological pendulum swing that came on the heels of the state's second-coldest April.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Meteorological summer begins; Saturday the wettest day of this weekend

Meteorological summer begins; Saturday the wettest day of this weekend

Highs this Friday afternoon will range from 50s along the north shore of Lake Superior to the upper 80s in parts of southwestern Minnesota. Most of the Twin Cities metro area will probably top out close to 80. Saturday highs will range from the 50s northeast to 70s south.
by Ron Trenda

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Beautiful Friday ahead; free AC this weekend

Beautiful Friday ahead; free AC this weekend

Friday looks like one of the best weather days of the year in Minnesota. The back side of a departing high pressure zone brings plenty of sunshine and a moderate east breeze. Comfortable dew points in the 50s provide free AC. Abundant sunshine will make this first day of June one to remember. Friday is…
by Paul Huttner

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Soggy Alberto triggers mudslides, threatened dam is OK

Soggy Alberto triggers mudslides, threatened dam is OK

Mudslides triggered by the soggy remnants of Alberto forced evacuations below a dam early Wednesday and closed a highway in western North Carolina as the center of the storm lashed the nation's midsection hundreds of miles away.
by The Associated Press

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