By Bill Endersen

Dew points will climb into the oppressive low and mid 70s in most of the hottest areas. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for much of the southern half of Minnesota for Wednesday afternoon and evening. Read more →

Serious flash flooding is occurring this morning in southwestern Minnesota. There have been isolated rainfalls of 6 to 8 inches reported. Roads are flooded. Read more →

Thunderstorms brought heavy rain to parts of Minnesota, mainly from the southwest to the northeast, overnight. Here is the short version of what you might need to know early this morning: Rain has skimmed by very close to the Twin Cites early today while heavy rain is causing problems to the southwest. Radar shows the Read more →

Summer is baring its teeth again this week as sticky heat and thunderstorms make their return. The first order of business will be thunderstorms for northern Minnesota this Monday evening. Showers began forming in northwestern Minnesota by late afternoon. Showers will grow into thunderstorms over west central and northwestern Minnesota and track east-northeastward toward the Read more →

Expect drying conditions across central and southern Minnesota Monday. High temperatures will range from the upper 70s near Canada to 80s for the rest of Minnesota. The Twin Cities should have an afternoon high near 87. Read more →

Showers will wane as the area of rain heads farther north. More showers will continue to develop across mainly south central and southeastern Minnesota through the day Tuesday, but they will struggle to get as far north as the Twin Cities. Read more →

Frequent widespread rains over the past week have caused flooding across southern Minnesota, mainly in low-lying or poorly-drained areas as well as tributaries to the Minnesota River. A mid-atmospheric low pressure system spinning across Iowa will spread more showers and thunderstorms across southern Minnesota through Tuesday. Rain will fall mainly on southwestern and south central Read more →

The atmosphere above Minnesota will experience jolts of energy this coming week. Then add in daily solar heating.  Showers and thunderstorms will be the result. Outflow boundaries from each round of convection often become the starting locations for the next rounds of storms. Forecasting rainfall for specific places becomes quite challenging as this process continues Read more →

Much more comfortable weather is on its way today, but areas of flooding will continue. Weekend rainfalls of 4 to 8 inches and some reports to around 11 inches in northeastern Minnesota and portions of Wisconsin have caused serious flooding. Highway 23, the two-laner that many of us drive between Banning and Jay Cooke State Read more →

Numerous thunderstorms really revved up in the sticky heating of the day on Tuesday. Many storms have had gusty winds and hail around one inch in diameter. There have been scattered reports of trees and branches down. What has impressed me has been how widespread this outbreak has been without the usual organization of storms Read more →