11:49PM – I’m happy to say I should get through this update without a power outage, however I will note that every night for the last several, there has been rain along the Minnesota and Iowa border. As you might expect, there are river flood watches and warnings across the state of Iowa.

10:02PM – This update is a little delayed! Mid post, Victoria-Weather lost power and didn’t get it back until this morning.

This is the radar imagery as a pair of lines moved through Minnesota, notably the Twin Cities and around Sioux Falls and Sioux City. There was a big gap between the lines that curiously lined up with the core of a Moderate Risk issued by the SPC earlier in the day.

12:26AM: After some grueling weeks of travel and family responsibility, I want you to know that there will be some real live Content here soon. Hooray!

8:08PM: When people talk about a dry heat, it’s like what we are seeing in Phoenix this evening. Temperatures are sitting at 102, with a dew point of 29. For reference, the dew points are sitting in the 70s across a lot of Mississippi Valley. That is NOT a dry heat.

9:03PM Now a few days out, there are 5 confirmed tornadoes from Carver County over the weekend, along with three in southwestern Minnesota, where they were certainly more photogenic.

10:42PM – One thing we don’t see enough of that we get to enjoy tonight? Rain on the west coast, even as June turns to July. A band of showers is rolling through southern Oregon, giving the area a healthy drink.

11:28pm: If you are in the Twin Cities and still up, I would just go ahead and stay up a little bit longer

9:21PM – June is typically when things start to settle down for the severe season, with generalized convection in the south, and rogue strong storms in the north and east, but the cold pool that has been sitting in the Great Lakes meant severe weather, intense at time, lingered in the southern Plains even in Texas last night. Now? Nothing rises higher than a Marginal Risk over the next several days. Summer!

10:57PM – The Goodland NWS office has this idea summarized in their weather story.

2:58PM – As a result of going away from the county based warning system to a “polygon” system, but also still using counties to some degree, we have had these weird nested warnings on our radar displays now for a some time. No, Georgia, you aren’t in a double warning because the storms are so bad, you are in a double warning because geospatial mapping isn’t as easy as anyone thinks it should be.

10:44PM: It is quarter to 11 on June 9th, and there is finally no rain in the Twin Cities area. Does this mean warmer temperatures? And will the departure of the persistent north wind, does that means less smoke? Probably! I hope!

8:36PM: I’m sorry, there is a heavy snow outlook for June 3rd? No thanks.

10:15pm – The big slow moving blob of low pressure in the Great Lakes is, as noted, producing severe weather persistently in the southern US is also producing some cool weather in the Upper Midwest, and frequent spats of showers with occasional thunderstorms. This is more typical of April than late May. Things should be turning over in the next couple of weeks, however.