It’s a Kansas City summer in the Twin Cities

Welcome to Kansas Metropolis. With lakes.

The previous 30-day interval within the Twin Cities is the sixth warmest 30-day interval on report. It’s additionally nearer to the common temperatures in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., greater than 400 miles south. The typical each day excessive temperature within the Twin Cities during the last month has been 87.3 levels.

The Twin Cities Nationwide Climate Service workplace despatched this eye-catching tweet Wednesday:

We’ve already endured 13 days of 90-degree warmth this summer time within the Twin Cities. That’s the common for a whole 12 months, and nearly half of meteorological summer time nonetheless lies forward.

That is additionally the tenth driest month-to-month interval on report for the Twin Cities, relationship again to 1973.

Looking for rain

I’m scanning the climate maps for much-needed rainfall these dry days. However rainfall appears spotty and scarce total for the subsequent week.

I count on Thursday morning’s up to date U.S. Drought Monitor to extend the protection of drought in Minnesota, particularly in areas from across the Twin Cities westward into a lot of central Minnesota alongside the U.S. Freeway 212, U.S. Freeway 12 and Minnesota Freeway 7 corridors.

The most effective probabilities for a quenching downpour from localized thunderstorms arrive Saturday. The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NAM 3 km decision mannequin paints scattered sturdy storms largely throughout central Minnesota Saturday.

The loop under runs between 1 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday.

General rainfall totals look scarce within the subsequent week. The European Centre for Medium-Vary Climate Forecasts mannequin cranks out some rainfall totals of 1 inch or extra over the subsequent seven days.

However take into account that summer time convective rainfall patterns are normally patchwork at greatest.

No less than we’ll be a number of levels cooler and fewer humid than the previous a number of days. Highs Thursday will largely run within the 70s to decrease 80s north, with mid to higher 80s south.

Friday brings one other shot at 90 levels throughout southern Minnesota, together with the Twin Cities.

One other cool entrance arrives Sunday with highs within the decrease 80s and comfy dew factors within the 40s.

We’d like rain.

Keep tuned.