Weather and Climate News

MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with University of Minnesota Climatologist Mark Seeley about cooler-than-normal temperatures across Minnesota this week.
Cool this weekend; possibly some scattered showers
Twin Cities highs will be in the lower 70s Monday, around 80 Tuesday, then lower 80s on Wednesday. Scattered showers are possible this Friday morning in northwestern Minnesota. All of Minnesota will have a chance of scattered showers and an isolated thunderstorm Friday afternoon and evening.
Showers and thunderstorms at times
It’s an umbrella kind of day. Periods of rain and a few embedded thunderstorms are expected over about the southern half of Minnesota this Thursday morning into early afternoon. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are also possible later this afternoon and evening for about the southern third of Minnesota. By Friday, southern and central Minnesota should…