The air was like a sauna. Rain came and went in the morning and the afternoon. And Carver County was under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. The weather gave Chanhassen residents something to remember their first summer primary voting experience by.

Carver County is among the East Central Minnesota counties under a tornado watch until 4 p.m. this afternoon. Chaska is listed as one of the cities in the watch. Chanhassen is not.

Carver County is among the counties covered by a hazardous weather outlook and flood warning issued Wednesday by the National Weather Service Office. This afternoon showers and thunderstorms are likely, mainly before midnight, according to the Weather Service. The chance of precipitation is 60%.

The National Weather Service Office has forecast another minor storm system, similar to the one that moved in Thursday night, would be in the area on Saturday with scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms. The risk of severe thunderstorms resulting from the system is "quite low," the Weather Service forecasts.

There is a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, on Saturday. The day is forecast to be mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. New rainfall amounts are expected to be between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

Carver County is among central and southern Minnesota and west central Wisconsin counties covered by a hazardous weather outlook for today and tonight.

The National Weather Service in Chanhassen has issued an excessive heat warning in effect from 2-9 p.m. today. "It will be very hot and humid today with a record high temperature in the lower 90s. The heat coupled with high humidity will generate heat indices this afternoon in the middle to upper 90s. The temperature will be slow to fall this evening with heat indices around 90 expected," the alert said. The Weather Service says with the combination of dangerously hot temperatures and high humidity, heat illnesses are likely.

The National Weather Service Center in Chanhassen reports that measurable snow is back in the forecast for much of central and southern Minnesota and into west central Wisconsin.

Normal snowfall for the month of May in the Twin Cities is 0.1 inch. The Weather Service predicts Friday's rain will "quickly mix with snow by late in the morning... finally becoming all snow by late afternoon and into the evening."

The worst tornadoes in Twin Cities history began on May 6 forty years ago, and one of them was in Chanhassen. Five tornadoes swept across the western and northern portions of the 7-county metropolitan region. A sixth tornado was outside the metropolitan area.