Regional weather view.

A cool and cloudy pattern for the Upper Midwest for the end of this week. A low pressure system scooting over Illinois will continue to spread light rain and below average temperatures across Southeastern Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. Highs will only be in the 50sto 60 across the region. By weeks end a high pressure system will bring in sunnier weather and warmer temperatures into the 70s and 80s by early next week, which is closer to normal.

 Regional and Metro views.

Locally it will be downright awful for weather on Thursday, It will be cloudy and chill with off an on drizzle early. Then lingering cloudy skies in the afternoon. Highs will only be in the 50s because of dense cloudcover which is well below normal Night time lows will be very chilly in the middle 40s. The weather will drastically improve by Friday  as a high pressure system slides into the state and scours out the clouds and replaces it with sunshine. We can expect highs to be in the 70s on Friday as well as Saturday. Saturday should be mostly dry with partly cloudy skies and light winds. We don’t run into our next chance of rain until; Sunday and Monday when a frontal system brings spreading shower and thunderstorm chances back into Minnesota. The rain with these chances do not look at all heavy. Temperatures during this time will be much more summer-like with highs in nearing 80 and lows nearing 60. 

Thursday, Chilly! Cloudy with off and on drizzle early then cloudy. Highs in the upper 50s. Thursday Night, Cloudy skies. Lows in the mid 40s.

Friday, Warmer and pleasant. Sunny skies with highs in the lower 70s. Friday Night, Clear skies lows in the low 50s.

Saturday, Partly Cloudy and nice with highs in the lower 70s. Saturday Night, Clear skies lows in the mid 50s

Sunday, Sunny with a slight chance of a shower or thunderstorm late. Highs in the upper 70s to low 80s. Sunday Night, A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms lows in the middle 60s.

Monday, A chance of showers and thunderstorms otherwise sunny with highs in the low 80s. Monday Night, Clear skies lows in the middle 60s

Looking Ahead

By Tuesday our weather pattern is sunny more humid warm to very warm days and warm nights and it appears dry with little chances for rain. This pattern sticks around through Saturday June 9th. It really looks hot, dry and sunny for the weekend of the 10th. This model run actually drys to keep it dry, hot and sunny through the 15th of June. I do not really trust that this to be true. I would suspect that after about a week or so into the warm patter we should run into rain. More on this later.