Severe weather chances return to Twin Cities with cold front passage
TWIN CITIES - The Storm Prediction Center has put a Slight Risk (2 out of 5) chance for severe weather across the Twin Cities area for today, Monday, July 10, 2023, as a cold front works across the region.
Ahead of the cold front, temperatures are forecast to sore into the upper 80s to low 90s across parts of the Twin Cities Metro as southwesterly winds will help advect a warm, moist air mass across the area causing dewpoints to get into the upper 50s to middle 60s. As these two mix, more than sufficient instability will build across the region to support the development of strong to severe storms late Monday afternoon and into the evening hours. The threat time looks to be around and after 4 PM across the far northern Twin Cities suburbs with increasing shower and storm chances across the Metro between 5-8 PM. Isolated showers and storms are forecast to develop along and just ahead of the cold front, and will increase in coverage along the front as it works off to the east-southeast.
While the main threat from this activity looks to be isolated to scattered large hail and damaging winds, a small tornado threat is possible with any stronger, isolated storms that develop. Additionally, locally heavy rain is possible which could cause isolated flash flooding. While this rain could aid in preventing the drought from getting worse, the odds are low this rain will help improve the drought unfortunately.
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