National Weather Service

A powerful Fall Storm will continue to bring occasional light snow to central Minnesota Saturday.

We'll see on and off rain Thursday, with more widespread rain coming Thursday afternoon and evening along a strong cold front that will sweep across the area.

A major winter storm is expected to impact the Dakotas starting Wednesday night.

Temperatures will be in the upper 60s to mid 70s for highs Tuesday and Wednesday, then crash into the 30s and 40s by the weekend as a powerful storm arrives.

Cover those plants tonights, The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Advisory for a large part of western Minnesota, including Stearns County.

We had another nearly half-inch of rain in St. Cloud Wednesday. The National Weather Service says the official total at the St. Cloud Regional Airport was .47 of an inch.

We officially had .63 of an inch of rain at the St. Cloud Regional Airport Wednesday. That brings us to 2.64 inches so far for the month of September, which is 1 1/4 inches above normal.

Precipitation will begin across Iowa, and spread northward across Minnesota, and into west-central Wisconsin during the day.

Strong to severe thunderstorms moving into northwest/west central Minnesota by Monday evening, spreading into western Wisconsin around midnight.

The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes that touched down in Mille Lacs County earlier this week. Scattered thunderstorms moved across central Minnesota on Monday night and those storms produced to brief tornadoes.