MN weather: Rainy Thursday afternoon

Welcome to your Thursday afternoon. I'm meteorologist Keith Marler. Thank you for clicking on Fox Local for this wet little start to the weekend as we go on into the four-day weekend for a lot of school kids. It's not exactly the best for any outdoor plans for the day-to-day. No real true pumpkin picking. At least it's not heavy rain. A lot of folks, a lot of light rain to be had. A lot of light, then occasionally moderate bursts, at least on the northern edge of it, which is kind of where the Twin Cities lives. That's not to say that northern Minnesota isn't getting any. You've had plenty of that light rain through the morning hours now that we're sliding through the afternoon there's not a ton left over for the northern part of the state overall you picked up a few hundredths to a tenth of an inch in the north you've done the same thing through the morning here in the Twin Cities a few hundredths to around a tenth but southern Minnesota already along the I-90 corridor from Albert Lea to the southwest or to the west from Albert Lea that is um some folks uh near Fairmont two-thirds of an inch uh already by lunchtime today and that continues to add up a little bit so anywhere from a half inch to three quarters of an inch maybe some isolated inches in southeastern Minnesota as the rain continues to spread through the afternoon but by the late afternoon and into the evening cold front sweeps across the state and shuts things down from the northwest to the southeast and here in the metro we'll start to see things wrap up on either side of sunset sun goes down a little before 6:30 maybe a couple of stragglers here and there after the sun goes down blustery through the night tonight the winds really pick up the radar is going to flare through the night But with those breezes, it's a drying wind, so the area of low pressure is going to still try to keep things tumbling. I don't know what's going to make it to the ground there. It'll be very light regardless. But some oddball drips are going to try to bring some off and on rainfall through the night tonight in those breezes. And that could linger even into some little pesky little spritzes tomorrow morning early. Then we break through of that and the cloud cover will start to break by mid-morning. And then the breezes, they don't go anywhere. Even though the sun comes back, we stay blustery and gusty through the day on Friday. With the sunshine, the sun is not enough to warm us up, so we're going to struggle. After highs that stay steady in the low 50s today and the 40s tonight, not a big change, we do our best to even warm to 50 tomorrow. A lot of the state just stays in the 40s with that aggressive northwestern blow. Sustained winds to 25 miles per hour, gusting to 30 or 40 miles per hour. That is fall. Coming to pay a visit and blow a lot of the leaves off the trees on a beautiful Friday afternoon, then the winds die off and we get calm Friday night and Saturday morning clear sky calm winds already a chilly afternoon you can read it frosty conditions frozen for some we'll end up with frost advisories and freeze warnings I'm sure a large chunk of the state and even the metro is under the threat for that heading into our Saturday morning in particular just a heads up there tender vegetation we've got to take care of it but then the winds come back quite aggressively through the day on Saturday but out of a warm source and that southwesterly to southern flow 15 to 25 miles per hour, probably some gusts. that'll bring a warm source, probably a fire danger issue for western and southwestern Minnesota, rural Minnesota especially, greater Minnesota. That brings back some warmer air and we're going back above average. High is back around 60, 60 plus. Heading in through the rest of the weekend, maybe even teasing a 70 for next week. So we put it all together on a forecast. This is the big fat duh because you just look out your window and you, well yeah, it's damp. It's raining. Yes, that's the day. Temperatures already have touched 52 so it's easy when you say 52 is your high turning breezy tonight 44 for your overnight low clouds linger the rain dries up to a few patchy weirdo drips tonight and then we'll keep those around but even fewer of them tomorrow morning early the clouds break free by mid morning or so and then it's back to sunshine blustery winds though i don't know if that was me being excited or if that was a sound of the wind either way struggling to go high around 50 we can calculate a wind chill though when we're in the 40s i don't know that we'll want to I might do it frosty conditions Friday night into Saturday morning widespread temperatures in the 20s and 30s across the state and then the breezes come back to visit but from a different direction out of the south and that'll blow in the warm 60 degrees with sunshine on Saturday that would be above average bright mid 60s to mid to upper 60s Sunday into Monday and then teasing the 70 degree temperatures Tuesday into Wednesday and again upper 60s to near 70 will continue from most of the end of the work week for next week. Have a great Thursday afternoon. Just stay dry as you go on about your business.