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MODERATESpecial Weather Statement

Special Weather Statement issued June 10 at 4:17AM CDT by NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

Hennepin; Anoka; Ramsey; Washington; Dakota

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At 417 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking heavy rain with possible minor flooding over the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Locations impacted include... Eden Prairie, Bloomington, Minnetonka, Edina, Richfield, St. Louis Park, Eagan, Plymouth, Inver Grove Heights, Minneapolis, Maple Grove, St. Paul, Fridley, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Roseville, Maplewood, Woodbury and Oakdale.

Instruction

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions.

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northern forest · Minnesota

Weather field guide

Minneapolis

Night weather settling over the northern forest.

The visual day has gone quiet; temperature, wind, insects, and edge movement become the living signals.

74°

overcast

High: 91°
Low: 73°
Feels: 79°
Last updated: Updated 4:45 AM

Today's field briefStorm timing

Use the 6a–7a window.

11p is the cleanest weather window. Thunderstorm signal near 9a; keep alerts visible and plans flexible. Watch temperature, insects, and edge movement more than color or distant views.

Best outside

11p

73° with 0% rain risk

Weather risk

Storm timing

Thunderstorm signal near 9a; keep alerts visible and plans flexible.

Nature cue

After-dark signal

Watch temperature, insects, and edge movement more than color or distant views.

Do first

Photography

100

The next 24pine shadow

Ten dayscold breath

Ten small weather plates: rain signal, sky language, and the temperature span the landscape will move through.

Today
Jun 10
Thunderstorm
91°64% rain
73° low

The indexfield-journal

UV index0Lowsundial

In the area

Life nearby

northern forest

Night ecology

After dark, the weather matters less like a forecast and more like a veil. Mammals and insects become the likely actors nearby.

pine shadowcold breathforest edgenight glassedge movementlow signallow light

Regional iNaturalist observations within roughly 50 km. Exact wildlife locations are intentionally not shown.

About Minneapolis

“The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a vast wilderness in the Superior National Forest of northeastern Minnesota.”

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Plants
Common Buckthorn
iNaturalist regional observations

Plants
Common Motherwort
iNaturalist regional observations

Plants
White Snakeroot
iNaturalist regional observations

Wildlife coming up

Eastern Gray Squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis

iNaturalist regional observations

Animal field note

Eastern Gray Squirrel keeps its own schedule.

Mammals tend to shift around heat, rain, and human noise, turning dawn, dusk, shade, and cover into the real local calendar.

Regional iNaturalist observations within roughly 50 km; exact public wildlife locations are not shown. Field-note copy is curated from taxon group, current weather, and regional observation context.

Also nearby

Mallard

Mammals & bears

fur + tracks

Eastern Gray Squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
iNaturalist regional observations
5,615 obs in the regional sample
White-tailed Deer
Odocoileus virginianus
iNaturalist regional observations
4,539 obs in the regional sample
Eastern Cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus
iNaturalist regional observations

Opening the weather.

Minneapolis

Use the 6a–7a window.

Photography

Night ecology

Eastern Gray Squirrel

Walking

Running

What the weather is doing now.

Photography

Night ecology

Eastern Gray Squirrel