Minnesotans will be cleaning up for a second straight day after severe storms rolled through the state on Monday, toppling trees and power lines and delivering heavy rain in some places.
The good news? They’ll have a nice day to do it.
The forecast for Tuesday calls for mostly sunny skies and light winds out of the north, a stark contrast to the violent weather that hit Sunday and Monday.
Nearly 30,000 customers in Minnesota remained without electricity Tuesday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. The number had exceeded 90,000 earlier in the day.
A majority of those in the dark were in the Twin Cities, with 7,841 customers without power in Ramsey County, 8,181 in Washington, 2,908 in Hennepin, 2,005 in Anoka, 1,796 in Dakota, 228 in Scott, and 428 in Carver, according to Xcel Energy.
Large trees went down all across the Twin Cities area and western Wisconsin, according to reports from the National Weather Service and storm damage photos posted on social media.
Some of the worst damage occurred across the border in Wisconsin, with large trees reported down in Somerset and New Richmond. But the Twin Cities area did not escape damage. Winds roaring at greater than 55 to 65 mph knocked down trees in Edina, Eden Prairie, Columbia Heights, Spring Lake Park, Coon Rapids, South St. Paul and Cottage Grove, according to the Weather Service and photos on social media.
The strongest winds were in southern Minnesota with a 74 mph gust reported in Kasson and 70 mph in Rochester, the Weather Service said.
