Air quality alert and severe weather forecast for area


Audio|Source: Cottonwood County Area NOAA Weather Radio
04:52
Transcript:
For Friday through Wednesday, an air quality alert has been issued for southwestern Minnesota for Thursday and Friday. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible Friday into the weekend with a storm or two possibly becoming severe. More hot and humid conditions are likely this weekend and into early next week with heat index values in the 90s to lower 100s possible. The hottest days will most likely be Sunday and Monday. Spotter activation is not expected at this time. Your National Weather Service forecast for wind and surrounding areas. West of today, partly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. North winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Tonight, mostly clear. Humid with lows in the mid-60s. Northeast winds surround 5 miles an hour, becoming south after midnight. Friday, mostly sunny. Humid with highs in the lower 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Friday night, mostly cloudy in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. A slight chance of showers. Humid will close in the mid-60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Chance of rain 20%. Saturday, sunny with highs in the mid-80s. South winds 5 to 10 miles an hour. Saturday night, mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Sunday, sunny. Highs around 90. Heat index values up to 100 in the afternoon. Sunday night, mostly clear with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then partly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the lower 70s. Chance of rain 50%. Heat index values up to 100 early in the evening. Monday, sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. Monday night, partly cloudy in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Lowes in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 30%. Tuesday, mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Tuesday night. Partly cloudy in the evening, then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. Wednesday, partly sunny. Highs in the mid-70s. At 2 p.m., the sky was mostly sunny in Jackson. The temperature was 77 and the 2.66. The relative humidity was 69%. Wind was north at 3 miles an hour. The pressure was 30.06 inches and falling. Elsewhere around southwest Minnesota, Redwood Falls was mostly sunny and 81. St. James was mostly sunny and 81. Worthington was partly sunny and 77. Slayton was mostly sunny and 79. Other conditions across the northern plains, in other areas of southern Minnesota, it was partly sunny, with a temperature of 78 at Marshall, 79 at Mancato, and 83 at Minneapolis. And around Iowa and southeast South Dakota, skies ranged from partly sunny to cloudy, and temperatures were between 79 and 81 degrees. Once again, at 2 p.m. and Jackson, the sky was mostly sunny with a temperature of 77. The current time is 2.16 p.m. Central daylight time. Operating on a frequency of 16.45 megahertz. This is NOAA Weather Radio Station KXI-31, broadcasting from a transmitter near Jeffers, Minnesota. Our program originates from the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls and serves the area around Wyndham, Jackson and Worthington. This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of northwest Iowa, west-central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, northeast Nebraska, central South Dakota, east-central South Dakota. South Central South Dakota, and Southeast South Dakota. For today and tonight, no hazardous weather is expected at this time. For Friday through Wednesday, an air quality alert has been issued for Southwestern Minnesota for Thursday and Friday. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible Friday into the weekend with a storm or two possibly becoming severe. More hot and humid conditions are likely this weekend and into early next week with heat index values in the 90s to lower 100s possible. The hottest days will most likely be Sunday and Monday. Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
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Jeffers, MN 56145
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