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AREA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
827 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 2002

HIGH PRESSURE DRIFTED OVERHEAD THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING SUNNY SKIES
TO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. LOOKING WEST...LOW PRESSURE WAS
FOUND ACROSS WESTERN MANITOBA. ITS ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT PUSHED INTO
THE WESTERN DAKOTAS...WHILE A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE LOW
THROUGH SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. ACROSS THE REGION...TEMPERATURES RANGED
FROM THE LOWER 70S ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND IOWA...TO
THE UPPER 40S ALONG THE WESTERN SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. CLOSER TO
HOME...HIGHS RANGED FROM 54 DEGREES AT MEDFORD WISCONSIN...TO 66
DEGREES AT OELWEIN IOWA.

HIGH PRESSURE PUSHED EAST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. WHILE THE LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM TRACKED OVER LAKE WINNIPEG. THE COLD FRONT EXTENDED
SOUTH FROM THIS LOW...STRETCHING ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. A NARROW BAND OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS
EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA. CLOUDS INCREASED ACROSS NORTHERN SECTIONS OF
MINNESOTA THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...CLEAR SKIES PREVAILED OVER THE
REMAINDER OF THE REGION. BREEZY SOUTH WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE
APPROACHING SYSTEM TRANSPORTED WARM AIR NORTHWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN
PLAINS. MID-EVENING TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHWEST MINNESOTA WERE
STILL IN THE LOWER 70S. WHILE COOL CONDITIONS CONTINUED FOR LOCATIONS
ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN...AS WINDS BLOWING OFF THE LAKE KEPT TEMPERATURES
IN THE UPPER 40S.

THE COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH NORTHWEST MINNESOTA SHORTLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT. DURING THE LATE-NIGHT HOURS...CLOUDS AND SCATTERED SHOWERS
WILL SPREAD FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS MUCH OF MINNESOTA AND WESTERN
IOWA. ELSEWHERE...SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR UNTIL EARLY
SATURDAY MORNING ACROSS EASTERN IOWA...NORTHERN ILLINOIS...AND
WESTERN WISCONSIN. LOWS WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 30S ACROSS NORTHERN
AND EASTERN WISCONSIN...TO AROUND 50 ACROSS SOUTHERN IOWA.

BY MIDDAY SATURDAY...THE COLD FRONT WILL STRETCH FROM NORTHWEST
WISCONSIN...THROUGH SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA...INTO CENTRAL IOWA.
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND
JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN WILL BE ACROSS THE
ARROWHEAD OF MINNESOTA EARLY IN THE DAY...THEN NORTHERN WISCONSIN
DURING THE AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED FURTHER
TO THE SOUTH. HIGHS WILL RANGE FROM THE MIDDLE 50S ACROSS NORTHERN
SECTIONS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN...TO THE LOWER 70S ACROSS
SOUTHEAST IOWA.

SOME LINGERING SHOWERS WILL BE FOUND ACROSS EASTERN WISCONSIN
SATURDAY EVENING. OTHERWISE...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD QUICKLY BEHIND
THE FRONT...BRINGING CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS TO THE UPPER
MIDWEST. LOWS WILL RANGE FROM THE 30S ACROSS THE NORTHLAND...TO THE
40S ELSEWHERE.

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SAW