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Friday...Hazy sun. High 79 F. Winds SE at 5 mph. 3-Day Outlook
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8:25PM
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  • 5:00 AM n_clear 57° Clear
  • 6:00 AM clear 58° Sunny
  • 7:00 AM clear 59° Sunny
  • 8:00 AM clear 64° Sunny
  • 9:00 AM clear 70° Sunny
  • 10:00 AM clear 73° Sunny
  • 11:00 AM clear 76° Sunny
  • 12:00 PM clear 79° Mostly sunny
  • 1:00 PM clear 82° Mostly sunny
  • 2:00 PM clear 83° Mostly sunny
  • 3:00 PM clear 84° Mostly sunny
  • 4:00 PM clear 86° Mostly sunny
  • 5:00 PM clear 84° Mostly sunny
  • 6:00 PM clear 83° Mostly sunny
  • 7:00 PM clear 81° Mostly sunny
  • 8:00 PM partly-cloudy 78° Partly sunny
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  • Fri 07/26 partly-cloudy 80°/57° Hazy sunshine Precip chance: 1% Wind: 5.8 SE
  • Sat 07/27 clear 86°/65° Sunny Precip chance: 4% Wind: 8.1 S
  • Sun 07/28 pc-T-storms 81°/68° Thunderstorms Precip chance: 56% Wind: 9.2 SSE
  • Mon 07/29 pc-T-storms 82°/67° Thunderstorms Precip chance: 88% Wind: 11.5 SSW
  • Tue 07/30 clear 88°/66° Mostly sunny Precip chance: 25% Wind: 6.9 WNW
  • Wed 07/31 partly-cloudy 88°/66° Partly sunny Precip chance: 80% Wind: 3.5 E
  • Thu 08/01 partly-cloudy 87°/68° Intermittent clouds Precip chance: 40% Wind: 8.1 S
  • Fri 08/02 cloudy 82°/67° Cloudy Precip chance: 40% Wind: 4.6 ESE
  • Sat 08/03 partly-cloudy 84°/66° Intermittent clouds Precip chance: 13% Wind: 6.9 E
  • Sun 08/04 clear 85°/66° Sunny Precip chance: 2% Wind: 6.9 NE
  • Mon 08/05 clear 85°/67° Sunny Precip chance: 1% Wind: 2.3 WNW
  • Tue 08/06 clear 86°/67° Mostly sunny Precip chance: 2% Wind: 5.8 WNW
  • Wed 08/07 mostly-cloudy 86°/68° Mostly cloudy Precip chance: 3% Wind: 3.5 W
  • Thu 08/08 cloudy 81°/61° Cloudy Precip chance: 25% Wind: 9.2 NE
  • Fri 08/09 rain 76°/63° Rain Precip chance: 78% Wind: 11.5 ENE
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Weather Whiplash: This Is Exhibit A

Paul Douglas on Weather Logo The metro area should experience a mostly dry weekend, but Sunday T-storms flare up from Alexandria to Brainerd.

A mostly sunny, mostly hot, mostly dry and smoky weekend is on the way for Minnesota

Jul 26, 9:40am

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Sports
5:58pm
Team Greece's boat parades along the Seine river in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024. (AP

Paris dazzles with a rainy Olympics opening ceremony on the Seine River

A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a four-hour-long, rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfurled along the Seine River.
Sports
5:29pm

Rain, rain and more rain couldn't drown out the cheers at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Drizzles, sprinkles and then full-on, nonstop rain drenched the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Ponchos, tarps and Eiffel Tower-patterned umbrellas weren't enough to protect the soggy but cheering crowds watching the show on the banks of the choppy Seine River.
Local
4:32pm
Twin Cities meteorologist Paul Douglas is retiring from WCCO after seven years on the radio. He started working for Minnesota news stations in 1983 an

Longtime broadcast meteorologist Paul Douglas is retiring from WCCO radio

Douglas, who arrived in the Twin Cities in 1983, will continue to run his weather company and prognosticate for the Star Tribune.
Paul Douglas
4:12pm

Weather Whiplash: This Is Exhibit A

The metro area should experience a mostly dry weekend, but Sunday T-storms flare up from Alexandria to Brainerd.
Nation
3:12pm

US coastal communities get $575M to guard against floods, other climate disasters

The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.

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