Minnesota stays cool; midweek rain for southern areas

It was a quiet night over Minnesota with temperatures falling into the 40s and 50s. With a bit of a northwest breeze you probably noticed the freshness of the air mass and the autumn-like feel.

Meanwhile, another bout of showers and thunderstorms blossomed over Iowa.  The infrared satellite image at daybreak captured the cold cloud tops of the storms.

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A screen capture of the Des Moines, Iowa, radar shortly before 6:30 a.m. showed the heaviest precipitation in eastern Iowa.

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It will be another comfortable day in our neck of the woods. Sunshine will make it feel pretty fine this afternoon, although temperatures in the 60s in northern Minnesota are well below normal for late August.

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Tuesday's high temperature forecast.

A speed bump comes in the dry weather at mid week, with rain likely in southern Minnesota.  Northern Minnesota is expected to miss out on precipitation from this next system.

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The forecast models are a little slower bringing rain into southwest Minnesota on Wednesday evening, so it now appears Thursday will be mostly wet in east central Minnesota. Refer to yesterday afternoon's Updraft blog to note the difference in the precipitation on the Global Forecast System Model from the latest computer run.

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The Global Forecast System Model of rainfall after midnight Wednesday to 7 a.m. Image?NOAA/College of Dupage

Forecasters from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center expect a couple inches of rain with this next system in southeast Minnesota.

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Twenty-four hour rainfall ending at 7 a.m. Friday.

The National Weather Service investigated the tornado track in Benton County, Minnesota, and filed this report of what they call the Morrill tornado.  The tornado was classified an EF0 with winds of 75 miles per hour.