Regional Weather View.
A quiet weather patten to start the week will be in places across the region bringing moderately warmer temperatures and sunny skies. By Tuesday highs will be approaching 80 in Iowa. Wednesday a frontal system will pass through bringing a quick shot of rain. Behind it its back to cooler air and sunny dry conditions for Wednesday
Local and Metro views.
Locally we can expect a very nice start to the week! Both Monday and Tuesday should feature mostly sunny skies with moderating temperatures. Highs Monday will be in the mid 60s, with lows in the low 40s. Tuesday will be the warmest day. Skies will be mostly sunny with highs in the low to mid 70s, with lows in the 50s! This warmth will be very short lived. Wednesday a frontal system passing through will bring in a quick shot of showers and thunderstorms. None of this rain will be too heavy or cause many problems there will probably not be too much rainfall with this either and it will not be an all day type rain, most should be light in nature. Then Thursday it will dry back out and become much cooler, highs will only be in the mid 50s with lows in the mid to upper 30s. Some light frosts will be possible, especially outside of Rochester.
Monday, Pleasant and nice! Sunny skies light winds, highs in the mid 60s. Monday Night, clear skies, lows in the low 40s.
Tuesday, Sunny and warm! Light winds with highs in the low to mid 70s. Tuesday Night, clear skies lows in the low 50s.
Wednesday, Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 60s. Wednesday Night, clearing skies, lows in the upper 30s.
Thursday, Much cooler, Sunny skies light winds with highs in the mid to upper 50s. Thursday Night, a bit chilly, clear skies with lows in the low to mid 30s. Light frost possible.
Looking Ahead
Looking towards next Friday, things warm back up a bit for Friday, then for the weekend a system looks to bring a shot at rainfall, especially Sunday, some could be heavy, It remains mostly cloudy for Monday with fair temperatures before a larger storm system spreads in heavy rains form Iowa to start the 1st Tuesday of May, some of this rain looks quite heavy. We get a break Thursday through Friday, with partly cloudy skies with fair temperatures. Then things look to start getting increasingly warm, humid, and stormy as we approach the week of Tuesday May 8th. We could be seeing more chances of severe weather during this time. More on this later.