TODAY:  INCREASING CLOUDS, BECOMING WINDY.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY LATE MORNING EAST CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA. BY MID AFTERNOON IN EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND BY EVENING ACROSS WESTERN MINNESOTA.  HIGH: LOW 70S.  WIND: SOUTHEAST 10 TO 25, GUSTING TO 40 MPH.  RAINFALL OF A THIRD TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH GENERALLY, LOCALLY MORE THAN AN INCH POSSIBLE.

TONIGHT:  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE, THEN DECREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT.  LOW: MID 50S.  WIND: SOUTHEAST 20 TO 30, GUSTING TO 50 MPH.

TOMORROW:  MOSTLY CLOUDY, PERIODS OF SHOWERS, BREEZY, OUT OF THE SOUTHEAST, GUSTING TO 30 MPH.  HIGH: LOW 60S.

WEDNESDAY:  PARTLY SUNNY, SCATTERED MOSTLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS. HIGH: UPPER 60S.  NORTHEAST WIND 5 TO 20 MPH

THURSDAY:  MOSTLY SUNNY, NO RAIN EXPECTED.  HIGH: UPPER 60S.  NORTH BREEZE.

FRIDAY:  PARTLY SUNNY, SHOWERS LIKELY ALONG WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS.  HIGH: UPPER 60S.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY:  PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY.  HIGH: 60S, A FEW SHOWERS SUNDAY.

NEXT WEEK:  MORE OF THE SAME … SHOWERS EVERY FEW DAYS.  HIGHS: 60S TO LOW 70S, MORNING LOWS, 40S AND 50S.