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WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL UNITED STATES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD
341 AM CDT FRI MAY 20 2005

HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED OVER THE GREAT LAKES REGION...WILL KEEP THE 
EASTERN HALF OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS DRY AND PLEASANT TODAY.  
MEANWHILE...LOW PRESSURE FORMING OVER THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS...WILL 
BRING AN INCREASING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE WESTERN DAKOTAS 
AND WESTERN NEBRASKA TODAY. AN EARLY TASTE OF SUMMER WILL TOUCH THE 
WESTERN PART OF THE REGION TODAY...AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB 
INTO THE LOW 90S ACROSS CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEBRASKA AND PORTIONS OF 
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA THIS AFTERNOON. 

THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE DAKOTAS AND 
NEBRASKA LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT...AS THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DRIFTS 
SLOWLY EAST. HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE 
TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTH DAKOTA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 
WILL SHIFT FROM THE EASTERN DAKOTAS AND EASTERN NEBRASKA INTO 
MINNESOTA AND IOWA ON SATURDAY...WHILE THE WESTERN HIGH PLAINS 
BECOMES PARTLY CLOUDY...WINDY AND COOLER ON SATURDAY.  EXCEPT FOR 
SOME SHOWER ACTIVITY ACROSS NORTHERN MINNESOTA...IT SHOULD BE 
DRY...MILD AND BREEZY ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON SUNDAY.

HIGH TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL RANGE FROM THE UPPER 60S OVER EASTERN 
MINNESOTA AND EASTERN IOWA...TO THE LOW 90S ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL 
AND WESTERN NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST SOUTH 
DAKOTA. LOWS TONIGHT WILL BE IN THE 50S NORTH AND EAST...TO THE MID 
60S ACROSS MUCH OF NEBRASKA AND PARTS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.  HIGHS ON 
SATURDAY WILL VARY FROM THE 70S NORTH AND EAST...TO THE MID 80S 
ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. 

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