Missing The Severe Storms... And A Wet Weekend With Breaks

There is good news today despite the big cooldown from our 90s we saw smash the old record highs yesterday. We're missing the severe storms. Our cold front has plowed ahead quite a bit faster than it looked like we'd see originally. That has meant the severe weather is occurring more toward eastern Minnesota and Iowa, and less in our area.

This is a radar image showing some severe thunderstorm warnings out there as I am writing this:

Lots of strong cells out there - and already moving into Wisconsin. There is another chance out there in our far eastern counties for Sunday, but for most of us we can just expect about two doses of rain.

Over the past few hours we've see some reports of rain and snow out there - with rain to the East and South, and snow/mix to the North and West. This is what it looks like in Hardy Station near the Wyoming/South Dakota border:

That is not very representative of snow seen elsewhere, but it does show the power of this storm system as it plows ahead through our area.

We are looking for rain to hold off toward the East for the most part until late tonight, with most of it quickly tapering off by the time we head toward tomorrow afternoon - with the possibility of some sunshine peeking out as well... but not much warmth.

Toward Sunday early in the morning we look for more rain to come through. This could end up leaving us quite wet - with anywhere from 0.5" to 1.5" of total rainfall ending up on the ground by Sunday evening when things start to taper off... This is a map of 24-hour rainfall forecasts for Sunday morning to Monday morning:

You can see some totals closing in on around an inch of rain - which could leave us a bit soggy for our Sunday evening.

Stay tuned to KDLT & have a great weekend!

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer