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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
1036 AM CDT FRI MAY 17 2013

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMED OVERNIGHT...WHICH
PRODUCED A WIDE RANGE OF RAINFALL TOTALS. SOME AREAS...THROUGH
CENTRAL IOWA INTO NORTHERN ILLINOIS...RECEIVED VERY LITTLE. THE SAME
THING FROM NORTHERN MINNESOTA INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN. BUT IN
BETWEEN...CLOSER TO INTERSTATE 90...RAINFALL WAS UP TO AN INCH OR
MORE WITH MINOR FLOODING IN LOW AREAS AND FIELDS.

THE RAINS CONTINUE TODAY AS A WARM FRONT TRIES TO ADVANCE THROUGH
THE AREA. GENERALLY A DRIER TREND IS EXPECTED FOR IOWA INTO NORTHERN
ILLINOIS GOING INTO THIS EVEING...AS THIS AREA OF RAIN CLOSER TO
INTERSTATE 90 SHIFTS NORTH. SO THE RAIN CHANCES WILL GRADUALLY LOWER
TONIGHT...IN MOST AREAS...WITH LOWS FROM THE MID 40S IN NORTHERN
WISCONSIN...TO THE LOWER 60S IN CENTRAL IOWA.

WARM AIR WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH IN FOR SATURDAY...WITH THE RAIN
THREAT GENERALLY LIMITED TO AREAS ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA AND
NORTHERN WISCONSIN. HIGHS WILL BE WELL UP IN THE 80S FOR MOST
AREAS...EXCEPT 70S WHERE CLOUDS AND POTENTIAL RAIN COULD HOLD HIGHS
BACK A BIT.

THE BUSIEST WEATHER COULD BE SUNDAY...WHEN POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER
COULD ERUPT DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

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