MN weather: Severe storms roll through the state

Hi everybody from the Fox 9 Weather Center. Chief Meteorologist Ian Leonard here on a Wednesday afternoon. It's really important that I let you know I'm recording this for you at around 445 here on Wednesday afternoon. We will of course keep this updated as we head through the evening, but I want to back away here to give you an idea of where we sit for the next few hours. It is going to be a bit of a bumpy ride. The large red box, that's a tornado watch in place until 9 p.m. It does include the Twin Cities Metro and here at around 445 on a Wednesday afternoon very strong storms to the north very strong storms to the south even into the south metro all of these storms with their direction are off to the east northeast at around 30 miles per hour so this will be a rapidly evolving and fast moving storm event tonight suffice it to say with a tornado watch in place most folks are probably thinking, are you crazy? It's late October. It was warm. It was humid. It was sunny. All of the ingredients needed. Mother Nature doesn't rely on a calendar. This is a real threat and I'd love for you to stay sky aware tonight as we move through the next three or four hours. In terms of tonight, the storm threat is real. In terms of the day tomorrow and as we work through the weekend, temperatures are above average but will cool down from where we were today halloween temperature for trick-or-treat somewhere in the low to mid 50s and as we fall back with our clocks we pick up an extra hour of sleep and we move into scattered showers both monday and into your vote day on tuesday there you go a quick update stay sky aware tonight my friends at tornado watch in place including the metro until 9 p.m