Severe weather has been pretty sparse in Minnesota lately, but we have a severe thunderstorm watch just issued, and it is on the very northern end of the thunderstorm risk today. There is a little bit of activity in eastern Minnesota so far, but it seems like a strange sight! We’ll see how it goes.

There is a bit of cooler air filtering into the northern US, slowly but surely. Bands of training thunderstorms are expected in the Upper Midwest today. The threat for storms is in the hail and wind variety, particularly when they get going later today. The jet is lingering near the Canadian border, so don’t expect this action to move further south. Sure, it’s hot down there, but at least it isn’t stormy, right?

The heat is on across the country, as you have no doubt felt and heard about on the news. The really hot weather is expected to ease everywhere, but a true return to normal is coming for New England and California by the beginning of August. As luck with have it, that is the most populous part of the country

There is some heavy weather in the northern Plains this evening, including tornado warnings in South Dakota and Nebraska. Fortunately, this activity is in pretty remote terrain, which makes tomorrows threat more dangerous, even if the storms were at the same level as today’s, because Michigan, especially lower Michigan, is well populated.

Tornadoes and strong winds will be the primary concern, though hail is a threat as well.

The risk was marginal initially, but now we are up to a slight with severe hail storms and a severe thunderstorm watch in New York. As these storms pulse down, winds could take down some branches in the forested parts of the eMpire State.

There isn’t a lot of organization to the weather activity with the current pattern, but it’s so warm, and so humid that they are likely to just pop up here and there. Unless you are travelling from Pittsburgh to Jackson and west to Oklahoma City, then you should be ok.

I’m looking a little bit at the Harrisonburg forecast from a few days ago, and I am reminded that, because of the combination of high population and density of vegetation, the region is very sensitive to wind storms. While in the Plains or Midwest, you see long track lines of severe weather with the heaviest storms, you get mottled spasms of wind reports out east like they did over the weekend in the Atlantic Coastal Plains.

There is a tract of the middle of the country with a slight risk for severe thunderstorms tomorrow. There is a target for large hail and tornadoes in east central Minnesota and western Wisconsin that may bump the area to an enhanced risk tomorrow. The stretch in Tennessee to western Virginia where our road trip will drive through is in a marginal risk.

The Pueblo office as a map of high temperatures that not only gives some good weather information, but also demonstrates Colorado’s topography pretty well. Of course, there is the lower temperature readings found in the mountains in the western 3/5ths of the state, but also, the break between 100s and lower temperatures is close to the Palmer Divide, which usually makes Denver a totally different weather scene than Pueblo or Colorado Springs.

There were a few showers and storms some severe, late on Sunday evening. Can you find them on satellite?