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Issued by NWS Duluth, MN
Issued by NWS Duluth, MN
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263 FXUS63 KDLH 140925 AFDDLH Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Duluth MN 425 AM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Northwesterly winds behind the front will usher another plume of Canadian wildfire smoke into the area today, lingering into tonight and Tuesday. - Additional rain and storms are possible Monday night through Wednesday as a slow moving cold front moves through the region, with cooler temperatures to follow. - A dry period is expected Thursday into Friday, followed by a return of precipitation chances for next weekend. Temperatures will gradually warm through the weekend. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 424 AM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 Smoke... A surge of smoke that has flowed into the area behind the front that moved through the area overnight will affect mainly northern Minnesota this morning, before gradually dissipating somewhat this afternoon and evening. Smoke is expected to linger tonight and into Tuesday, but with a more inconsistent density than today. I have included areas of fog in the forecast through Tuesday, but it will be much less noticeable than today. Today... The cold front that is sagging through the forecast area this morning will stall across the southern portions of the CWA and gradually get more and more diffuse. With only a small change in airmass, it will be warm and sticky once again today. Northwest Wisconsin will get into the mid to upper 80s, with lower to mid 80s farther north. Tonight through Wednesday... Zonal flow aloft over the high plains has some embedded shortwaves that will ride east across the forecast area in the coming days. These will interact with an 850mb baroclinic zone that is setting up over the MT/Canada border this morning, and will extend east along the US/Canada border today, and into northern MN tonight. Along/south of this mid level boundary, an inverted trough is expected to develop, with cyclogenesis developing over Wyoming today. The resulting low gradually sags southeast into Kansas by Wednesday. The inverted trough associated with it which extends up over Minnesota tonight will gradually sag south through Wednesday as well. This set up is a fairly classic set-up for an extended period of showers and thunderstorms that move across the forecast area. In fact, they may begin as early as this afternoon as the convection currently over NE MT and southern Saskatchewan pushes east today. This may or may not maintain itself very well, and have kept pops this afternoon on the lower side for now. Tonight, a low level jet should cause additional convection to develop over North Dakota before sliding east into Minnesota for overnight into Tuesday. Similar waves of showers and storms are expected to move across the forecast area through Wednesday. With the surface boundary in the vicinity tonight through Tuesday night, we will have a risk of severe storms, bringing the risk for damaging winds and large hail. SPC has placed us in a Marginal Risk for tonight and again Tuesday and Tuesday night. For Wednesday, the boundary sags farther south and with easterly flow off Lake Superior we are looking at much cooler temperatures for most of the area, reducing our risk of severe weather. However, convection will continue to develop and move along that boundary, and with healthy PWAT values of 1.5" or higher and repeated thunderstorms moving over the same areas, there is a risk of heavy rainfall for Tuesday night into Wednesday. We have a Slight Risk of excessive rainfall from WPC. Thursday and Friday... We should have some cooler and drier conditions as a ridge of high pressure builds into the area from the north. Temperatures will be well below normal, with highs on Wednesday under the above rainfall only in the 60s for a large portion of the area, and only getting into the upper 60s to mid 70s on Thursday even as some sunshine returns to the forecast. We warm a little more into Friday, but still mostly in the 70s. Next weekend... Precipitation chances return to the forecast for next weekend, with the broad zonal flow continuing across the Plains into the Great Lakes region, and shortwaves moving through that flow fire off some rounds of showers and storms. At the surface, the high pressure that should bring us the quieter days on Thursday and Friday will retreat off to the east and allow some warmer air to push back into the area from the southwest. Temperatures will slowly return to near normal values for July. && .AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY/... Issued at 1256 AM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 A weak cold front slowly dropping southeast across the area overnight will be accompanied by isolated showers or a storm or two. It has yet to pass KHYR, and have included a VCSH group for the next few hours there. Behind the cold front, smoke will filter into the region. Have included a few hours of MVFR visibilities for the terminals during the early morning hours, but then improving back to VFR by 15z. A few showers or storms are possible beginning by early evening for far northern Minnesota. I have added a PROB30 group to KINL for after 01z with TSRA with MVFR cielings and visibilities. && .MARINE /FOR NEAR SHORE WATERS OF WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR/... Issued at 424 AM CDT Mon Jul 14 2025 West to southwest winds today of 5 to 10 knots will back into the east tonight, and back even farther to the northeast and north on Tuesday. Waves through this period will remain a foot or less. Tuesday night northeast winds will gradually increase, sustaining around 15 knots and gusting into the 20 to 25 knot range on Wednesday before decreasing again Wednesday night. Waves will build Tuesday night through Wednesday, peaking in the 2 to 4 foot range before diminishing again Wednesday night. Small Craft Advisories may be needed in the Tuesday night through Wednesday night. For the open water discussion, refer to the NWS Marquette Area Forecast Discussion at weather.gov/mqt. && .DLH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MN...None. WI...None. MARINE...None. && $$ DISCUSSION...LE AVIATION...LE MARINE...LE