4Warn Weather – After a prolonged stretch of warm, dry weather across Southeast Michigan, chances of rain and thunderstorms are returning just in time for one of the region’s busiest outdoor weekends.

Motor City Pride at Hart Plaza, along with graduations, sporting events, backyard gatherings, and trips to area parks and lakes, will contend with periods of showers and thunderstorms from Friday evening through Saturday evening before drier weather returns Sunday.

The good news? Neither day will have all-day rain.

Friday will start warm and largely dry across Metro Detroit.

Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 80s, making it one of the warmest days of the week. Most communities should remain rain-free through at least early afternoon.

Scattered to numerous showers with embedded thunderstorms develop Friday afternoon and continue through Friday night as a weather system approaches from the west.

While an isolated stronger storm cannot be ruled out, Friday’s primary impacts are expected to be periods of rain, lightning, and downpours rather than widespread severe weather.

The greatest coverage of storms is expected during the evening and overnight hours, roughly between 9 p.m. Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday.

Saturday

Saturday remains the day to more closely monitor the forecast and check the 4Warn Weather app.

Following a likely lull in activity during the morning, additional showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop during the afternoon as a weak cold front moves across Southeast Michigan.

Some storms may become strong to severe.

The primary threats include damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph and hail up to one inch in diameter. While the tornado threat appears low, it is not zero.

The highest risk for severe weather covers the southern communities of Southeast Michigan, where a Level 2 out of 5 Slight Risk stretches from the Downriver communities to Monroe and Lenawee counties.

The remainder of Southeast Michigan, including Detroit, Ann Arbor, Flint, Port Huron, and much of the Thumb, remains under a Level 1 out of 5 Marginal Risk, where isolated severe storms remain possible.

An isolated storm could begin developing as early as noon Saturday, but the greatest potential for severe weather appears to be between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Activity should gradually weaken and move out during the evening, ending by around 10 p.m.

For those attending Motor City Pride festivities at Hart Plaza, weather awareness will be important Saturday afternoon.

While many hours of dry weather are still expected, festival-goers should be prepared for temporary interruptions if thunderstorms develop nearby.

Anyone spending time outdoors this weekend should have multiple ways to receive weather alerts.

The 4Warn Weather app can deliver warnings and Exact Track 4D Radar updates directly to your phone, so you can act quickly if severe weather develops.

Remember, if thunder roars, go indoors. Tents, festival canopies, and trees do not provide safe shelter from lightning or severe winds.

A substantial building is always the safest place to be during a thunderstorm warning.

Sunday

Sunday is shaping up to be the best day of the weekend.

Any lingering showers should end Saturday evening, giving way to sunshine, comfortable humidity levels, and afternoon temperatures in the lower to middle 80s. Conditions should be favorable for Pride festivities, outdoor dining, boating, picnics, and recreation throughout Southeast Michigan.

Next week

Looking ahead, summerlike heat is expected to build quickly next week.

Forecast confidence continues to increase that Southeast Michigan could experience its first widespread stretch of 90-degree weather of the season by the middle and latter part of next week.

High temperatures are expected to climb through the 80s early in the week before approaching the lower 90s on Wednesday and Thursday.

Humidity levels are also expected to increase, creating a muggier feel.

People are encouraged to stay hydrated, wear sunscreen, take breaks in the shade, and monitor the forecast for additional thunderstorm chances expected to return mid-next week.

Before the weekend storms arrive, skywatchers may have one more reason to look up Thursday night.

A weak geomagnetic disturbance could allow a faint display of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to become visible across parts of Michigan. Viewing conditions are expected to be best between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. in areas away from city lights while looking toward the northern horizon.

The farther north in Michigan you travel, the better the chances of catching a glimpse of the display.

Share your northern lights and weather photos with Local 4 at MIPics.

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Health Department is monitoring 3 individuals at low risk for Ebola after they were screened following travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo or Uganda, the two countries where the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency last month.

The individuals are not suspected cases, and the health department says there is currently no public health concern for Milwaukee residents.

Ebola has claimed dozens of lives in the Congo and one in Uganda.

Pastor Tonny Kizza leads a church in Whitefish Bay. He is from Uganda and has lived in the U.S. for 10 years. He has seen over a half dozen outbreaks of the rare but lethal disease.

“And it is sad. It scares people. It worries us. It has taken our people,” Kizza said.

Kizza says the response to the outbreak needs to be collaborative.

Watch: Milwaukee health department monitors 3 people for low-risk Ebola after travel

Milwaukee health department monitors 3 people for low-risk Ebola after travel

“The effort to contain it, it can’t be a one-country effort. Now we’ll need support from all the regions because apart from colonial borders, our people cross over from one country to another,” Kizza said.

Deacon Gary Nosacek and Dr. Cynthia Jones-Nosacek have spent the last decade doing health clinics in rural Uganda. Jones-Nosacek says she worries about health care workers who might be under-resourced.

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The two say that while the danger is real, people in the U.S. must remember Ebola is not as highly contagious as diseases like COVID-19.

“So it’s only through body fluids, you know, from the, you know, when they vomit or from the diarrhea, from those, from those kinds of things. So for the general population, it’s not gonna be a problem. For those who are exposed, it could be a problem,” Jones-Nosacek said.

A Milwaukee Health Department spokesperson put the current cases into perspective: during the major outbreak from fall of 2014 to summer of 2016, the city had a total of 39 low-risk contact cases — none of those individuals ended up contracting the disease.

As of now, there are no confirmed cases in the United States.

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For weeks, reporters at The Minnesota Star Tribune were covering scattered immigration enforcement actions around Minneapolis and St. Paul. Tom Scheck, the paper’s investigative editor, had assigned his small team of about four journalists to the story.

“We were trying to cover events, but they were not like 30, 40 people who were being detained. It was like more one-offs,” Scheck said.

Then, on Jan. 7, Renee Good was shot and killed by immigration enforcement officers as she tried to drive away from them.

“Our executive editor looked at me and said, ‘Well, what are we going to do?’ And I said, ‘I have four people.’ And that was a moment where she said, “Everyone in our newsroom will cover this story.”’

It marked a turning point in news coverage of Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration crackdown that brought thousands of immigration officers to Minneapolis and St. Paul last winter.

During a community conversation hosted by Poynter on Wednesday night, Scheck and MPR News senior photojournalist Kerem Yücel reflected on what it was like to cover the operation as local journalists — and, in Yücel’s case, as an immigrant.

Both described a city transformed by the scale of the federal response, as well as an unusual sense of camaraderie among competing newsrooms. Everyone was dedicated to the story. The Minnesota Star Tribune hosted safety trainings that were open to other newsroom reporters. While out in the field, Yücel said reporters from other newsrooms stuck together to protect one another. They’d extend safety gear if he lost some of his, and they all kept a Signal chat or WhatsApp group to communicate.

Any of the typical competition between newsrooms was erased by an understanding that they needed to work together and protect each other.

For Yücel, documenting the impact on ordinary residents  — the teachers and mothers, the doctors and clergy, and how they protected their fellow community members — became the focus of his work. Yücel, who immigrated from Turkey seven years ago, has covered the murder of George Floyd and the aftermath in Minneapolis in 2020 and spent five years covering the conflict in Syria.

“In the city (Minneapolis), I never imagined facing this reality,” he said as he flipped through photos he’d taken during the operation.

Scheck said he realized he needed to start paying attention to ICE presence in the Twin Cities in October — well before President Trump deployed waves of immigration enforcement to the city.

He was sitting at a bar in Washington, D.C., where he was attending a conference, when a Chicago reporter told him his newsroom needed to be ready.

Scheck asked his editor if there was a plan in case Minneapolis saw the kind of immigration crackdown that overtook Chicago. “Like any good manager, they said ‘congratulations, you’ve volunteered.’”

He dug into how other immigration enforcement crackdowns had transpired.

“I looked at the coverage in Chicago, in Los Angeles, in Portland, in Charlotte, and I made a timeline of the things that happened.”

Within a month, the first ICE raid took place in Minneapolis.

“They raided a facility called Bro-Tex … and I think they detained about 10 or 12 people at that event.”

US Border Patrol agents detain a person near Roosevelt High School during dismissal time as federal immigration enforcement actions sparked protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 7, 2026. (Kerem Yücel/MPR News)

About two weeks later, a conservative outlet in the city ran an article alleging that members of the Somali community were engaging in fraud, which the Trump administration latched onto and used as its reason to deploy thousands of immigration agents to Minneapolis.

As the operation expanded, both journalists found themselves reporting on a major story unfolding in their own communities.

Yücel’s citizenship status was questioned by immigration officers routinely. There were many times out in the field when he feared what might happen.

“Well if something’s happened to me, I only know I have my wife and my kids, and there is no other person to call in for the emergency,” he said.

For him, the severity of the situation became clear the day after Good was shot and killed. He went out to the scene, but found himself at the nearby Roosevelt High School where Greg Bovino, then-commander of Border Patrol, was holding a canister of gas and running into crowds of teachers, parents and students.

“Everywhere was covered with the tear gas and smoke and they detained a person just in front of me.”

After he photographed the moment, Yücel had to pick up his children, twin boys. That night, they asked him hard questions. Were they considered white or brown? Could they be detained? They were scared, having witnessed a classmate being taken away, and knowing that they weren’t American.

It was the next day, sitting in his therapist’s office, that the reality of his experience as a photojournalist documenting an immigration crackdown as an immigrant himself really came into view.

“That day I was start(ing) thinking, ‘Oh, this story is also becoming my story.’”

From left, Angie Drobnic Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network; Tom Scheck, investigative editor at The Minnesota Star Tribune; Kerem Yücel, senior visual journalist at MPR News; and Amy Sherman, senior correspondent at PolitiFact, participate in a community conversation about Operation Metro Surge on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at Poynter’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Chris Kozlowski/Poynter)

In Minneapolis, no community or person was left untouched by the scale and force of Operation Metro Surge, not even the journalists. Yücel went out and reported despite the fear that he might be detained or arrested. During protests following a Nov. 25 immigration enforcement operation, he was injured by tear gas and rubber bullets fired by local police and was hospitalized. He kept reporting.

Scheck said that by day, at the office, he focused on getting the story right — what needed to be covered and where to send reporters.

But, at home, the reality that he was living through Operation Metro Surge rather than just reporting on it was unavoidable.

“You see all these people who are like out either protesting or out on the streets just watching the school because they want to make sure that kids feel safe … it was just a little bit jarring.”

Portraits of Renee Nicole Good, Alex Pretti and other people killed by law enforcement in Minnesota are displayed on a wooden fence beside a memorial along Portland Avenue South on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Kerem Yücel/MPR News)

For both journalists, Operation Metro Surge wasn’t just a story. It was something unfolding in their own neighborhoods, among their friends, families and neighbors.

Yücel said the experience changed how he felt as a resident of Minneapolis and an immigrant in the United States.

“It wasn’t my home, but when I saw the people outside just standing, I found that I started feeling like I was growing some roots. My home is Istanbul, Turkey. But those people had an impact on my life. My roots are starting to reach down in the soil. I’m starting to call Minneapolis my second home.”

For Yücel, that connection to the community was essential to the work. Had he not been there to witness its pain, resilience and solidarity, he said, he would not have been able to tell the story in the same way.

Update (June 4, 2026, 2:40 p.m.): An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of MPR News senior visual journalist Karem Yücel and incorrectly linked an injury he sustained while covering immigration enforcement protests to the Bro-Tex raid. The injury occurred during a separate operation later that month.