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00:00Well, we take a look at last night's rainfall, the second one of the week.
00:03We've got more rain on the way for Thursday and potentially a stormy setup for early next week.
00:17Well, picked up some additional rainfall overnight with our second system of the week,
00:22two of four of the week. Not as much rainfall as Sunday night. In fact, just a trace at MSP,
00:28but parts of the metro and especially south of the Twin Cities got a few tenths of an inch of rain,
00:32and now those clouds and showers will persist across northern Minnesota.
00:36Well, we see sunshine here in the southern part of the state for a better part of the day.
00:40This is really kind of a clipper system, that low tracking straight east across the state
00:44and bringing more showers for northern Minnesota. But even there, where they had some snowfall early
00:49yesterday, it's in the form of liquid at least. Now, just to the northwest in Manitoba, it's in the
00:55form of snow. So that system will pull away. We get a largely dry break tonight into tomorrow
00:59across the state, but we've got two more systems lined up. And warmer temperatures where we see the
01:04sun today, 60s to near 70 degrees in southern Minnesota, rain-cooled temperatures in the 50s
01:09to the north. And tomorrow, similar temperatures well into the 60s, if not low 70s across southern
01:14Minnesota. We'll see more sunshine, some high clouds starting to move in, and maybe a spotty shower
01:19or two tomorrow, in far southern Minnesota especially. But the main event is going to come
01:24Thursday, and particular Thursday night looks like we could see some periods of some heavier
01:29rainfall. Kind of a similar situation to Sunday night, where we see a little bit more measurable
01:33rainfall potentially. Not necessarily thunderstorms, but at least some heavier showers. And again,
01:39kind of like Sunday night, confined mostly to the southeastern part of the state with the
01:42Twin Cities on the northwest edge of this. So potentially another inch of rainfall for parts
01:47of southeastern Minnesota, where they got one to two inches Sunday night, too. And then
01:52fast-forwarding, seasonable temperatures for the weekend. And next week's system will come
01:57with warmer temperatures, 70s to near 80-degree temperatures Monday, higher dew points. That
02:01means that we're talking about more thunderstorms rather than just rain showers, and particularly
02:06late in the day with that daytime heating, both Sunday and Monday, but in particular Monday.
02:12And we could be dealing with thunderstorms, as I mentioned here. Plenty of instability. This is
02:16proportionate right to those gulf dew points. It'll start to reach southern Minnesota by Monday.
02:21So not only close to 80 degrees, but with dew points, it'll be higher, just generating more
02:25instability. Lightning forecasts from the European model showing that, in particular Monday, and then
02:30again, maybe into early Tuesday. And already, the Storm Prediction Center is watching Monday into
02:35Monday night for an early look here at potential strong to severe storms. So southern Minnesota,
02:41early heads up that we could see some strong storms on Monday. So a summary scenario as we head into
02:46early next week, potentially. But 68 today. Clouds will continue to decrease for the southern half of
02:52the state. 70 tomorrow, with more sunshine mainly dry. Again, maybe a spotty shower, but the better
02:57chance is going to be Thursday into Thursday night. A little cooler those days as well. Should clear out
03:02for Saturday. But yeah, that fourth system moves in here for Sunday into particularly Monday, but with
03:09warmer temperatures could be stormy.