Nice for another day (but with a fire danger) then severe threat?

First, if you are planning on venturing out and about this evening, temps will be dropping through the 50s, eventually bottoming about around 37 for a low tonight with mainly clear skies.

We will continue to see very nice weather tomorrow, with temps higher than the 62 they were today... topping out around 66 with sunny skies. We could see some gustier winds out of the south though, to near 20 mph.

That, along with a low humidity reading, has caused the National Weather Service to put out a Fire Weather Watch for Douglas, Todd, and Morrison Counties from Noon Wednesday through 8 pm.

After tomorrow... well, it looks rainy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms is in the forecast every day and night from late Wednesday Night through the weekend (mainly showers though for the weekend, tapering off Saturday Night into Sunday).



The day that holds the most concern right now is Thursday. Right now a Slight Risk of Severe Storms is out for a sliver of the state, as you can see in the graphic, but I am cautious and would say that the southern half of the state should be on the lookout from the late afternoon through the evening. I would say the best threat would be large hail and some damaging winds. The Storm Prediction Center was not very clear AT ALL in their forecast this morning about the threat in Minnesota, but I think the main tornado threat will be more in southern Iowa through Kansas, Oklahoma and into Texas.

Highs will be around 70 Thursday, and in the lower 60s Friday through the weekend and into next week. More rain and possibly active weather as we get into the first half of next week.