Northwest Suburbs Mostly Spared from Major Storm Damage
While parts of the Twin Cities metro dealt with downed trees and power outages from storms that passed through Monday night and Tuesday morning, the storm damage in the northwest suburbs was minimal.
“The portion of the line that passed through the northwest suburbs of the cities wasn’t as strong as what went through the southwest suburbs and then through the central part of the cities,” said Caleb Grunzke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chanhassen. “There was a specific area of the storm that had stronger wind gusts with it.”
Grunzke says those wind gusts reached 60 miles per hour in the southwest part of the metro.
This radar image from Tuesday morning shows the system over the Twin Cities metro. It came in from the west and then passed into western Wisconsin.
Monday’s heat and humidity were to blame for the storm system.
“That’s basically the energy for these storms,” Grunzke said. “Having a very warm and moist environment allows for a lot of atmospheric instability, which is what the storms feed off of. So having a lot of that in place means you have usually have a lot stronger storms.”
Grunzke says the hot and steamy weather is over, so expect the temperature to be more comfortable for the rest of the week, although there is rain in the forecast for Thursday.
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