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KEY MESSAGES

- The majority of the showers and isolated thunderstorms today through Sunday are expected to be west of the Red River. Better chances for showers and thunderstorms across all of eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota will be early next week.

- Not as hot over the weekend and into next week, but temperatures are still above average.

..Temperatures from the weekend into next week

With the upper ridge just to our east starting to break down and some shortwaves starting to bring some cloud cover, temperatures will be a bit more moderate and top out in the 80s instead of the 90s over the weekend. ECMWF EFI still shows a warmer than usual temperature signal, which makes sense given southwesterly flow aloft. Temps by the end of the period look to be just above average instead of well above seasonal averages and nearing records.

AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY/

Issued at 1221 PM CDT Fri May 29 2026

VFR conditions now and throughout the period with increasing high and then mid clouds. Some showers and even an isolated thunderstorm are possible this evening, but will be scattered and may or may not impact the airports. Have some Prob30 groups for showers in for now, and will put in the prevailing group if and when convection gets stronger or impacts the TAF sites. Winds that are light and fairly variable will steady out of the southeast, then pick up with some gusts close to 20 kts by the end of the period.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

ND...None. MN...None.

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