The rain is coming to the Twin Cities metro, and could be bigger than anything we've seen since the weather turned warm.
It still won't take us out of drought conditions, but it'll be a nice break from what we've had of late.
WCCO chief meteorologist Paul Douglas says the storms will start in the western part of the state about mid-day tomorrow before moving to the Twin Cities metro.
"The later in the day, the better the odds of being impacted by some heavier showers and storms," Paul told Vineeta Sawkar on the WCCO Morning News, adding that the heavy stuff won't come down for quite a while on Saturday, and then it'll overnight.
"It actually may taper off to lighter showers Sunday afternoon into Sunday evening," he said.
According the forecast model that Paul checks constantly, it appears the heaviest of the rainfall tomorrow will happen along the I-94 corridor and to the north.
Those areas could get up to three inches of rain before it's all over.
As for the Twin Cities metro, maybe a half-inch to an inch of rain, with an outside chance of two inches of rain.
"That would make this one of the bigger rainfall events of the entire summer season," he said.
That moisture still isn't expected to make a severe cut into Minnesota's drought conditions, which continue to affect a wider area of the state.
A few counties in the St. Cloud area, as well as part of southeastern Minnesota are now in extreme drought according to the latest US drought monitor.