Regional weather view.
The 1st very fall like weather system will be making at least a few headlines across the Upper Midwest for this weekend. A small but strong system will push a cold front through the region on Friday, bringing rain, and even a few early pre winter snowflakes to Northern Minnesota, where a bit of accumulation is possible. Behind this front cold air will pool southward bringing widespread frosts and freezes to much of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Iowa. Warmer air will eventually move in earlier next week bringing more seasonable temperatures but continued dry weather to the region. Worsening and expanding drought conditions will continue for Minnesota and Wisconsin, with continuing droughts everywhere else.
Regional and Rochester metro views
Very chilly weekend. Highs in the 50s with widespread frosts Saturday Night.
This weekend is going to have a very fall like feel to it. We will have chilly conditions, clouds, breezy northwest winds and even widespread frosts. The system mentioned above will effect the area in the following ways. Friday, will be partly cloudy with highs in the lower 60s. Showers will move in on the storms cold front. These showers will be light in nature and offer little help in the way of relief from the drought. Saturday will be kinda cold with strong northwest breezes to 30MPH. High temperatures on Saturday will struggle to reach the lower 50s. Skies will start off cloudy and then clear as the day goes on. This will set the stage for a cold night Saturday night and Sunday morning. Lows will drop off quickly after sunset. Lows will fall to the lower 30s for most areas. With a few the low valley areas possible seeing upper 20 degree readings, with these temperatures widespread hard frosts is likely . This could very will be the end of the growing season for much of the local area. Heat island effect will protect help inner city areas of Rochester escape the worst of hardest the frost/freezes, but frost is still likely in this area with lows in the middle 30s. Sunday will still be on the chilly side with highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s, and lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s.Indian Summer? Warmer air arrives next week with dry conditions developing.
Next week for the areas the pattern turns quiet again, which is bad news for drought conditions, but it looks much warmer as warm air moves back in from the west. Next week actually looks fairl, y nice, with most days around 70s, with lows in the 40s, a few days will be on the breezy side.
Note: Hard frosts likely this weekend. You will want to cover tender plants! Tend plants will not survive the expected temperatures without cover. More statements can be seen above.
Saturday, Cloudy breezy and cool. Showers possible in the morning. Winds gusting to 30MPH. Highs in the middle 50s. Saturday Night, Cold! Clearing skies with lows in the lower to middle 30s inner city Rochester. Widespread hard frosts likely.
Sunday, Chilly, Sunny skies highs in the upper 50s to lower 60s. Sunday Night, Clear skies lows in the upper 30s to lower 40s.
Monday, Sunny and Much warmer. Highs in the lower 70s. Breezy with south winds to 35MPH. Monday Night, Clear skies lows in the upper 40s.
Tuesday, Sunny, Nice! Light winds with highs in the lower to middle 70s. Tuesday Night, Clear skies, lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
Wednesday, Sunny skies, Nice! Highs in the lower to middle 70s. Wednesday Night, Clear skies, lows in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
Looking Ahead
Our next shot of much needed rain could arrive Thursday the 27th, when a warm front could spread some showers across Minnesota. It doesn’t look like much at this time but its worth looking at. Looks dry and pleasant for the weekend into the 1st part of October. The 3rd of October a developing cold front spreads widespread showers across the region. The models shows this as being a fairly beneficial system. We’ll see if it holds. I really don’t see any major cool downs into the 1st week of October.