May 24, 2021
The evening will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the 50s northwest to mid-60s southeast. Tuesday brings sunshine with highs in the 70s northwest to mid-80s southeast. Tuesday night will be much cooler — some good sleeping weather with lows in the mid-30s to lower 40s north, upper 40s to upper 50s south. Get the latest from Updraft. Gov. Tim Walz is asking Minnesotans to observe an extended silence Tuesday to mark the year since George Floyd was killed. Walz issued a proclamation, asking for the silence to begin at 1 p.m. and last for 9 minutes and 29 seconds, the length of time police knelt on Floyd the evening of Memorial Day last year. Walz noted that officer Derek Chauvin has been convicted of murder, but that more must be done to bring about change throughout the criminal justice system. Commemorations of Floyd’s life and death will happen tomorrow afternoon, both in The Commons park of downtown Minneapolis and at George Floyd Square at 38 th and Chicago. MPR News will observe the year since Floyd’s death with special coverage, including discussions hosted by Kerri Miller and Angela Davis tomorrow morning and a special In Focus event live at noon on Wednesday. Minnesota stars another week with no reported COVID deaths on Monday and the lowest level of active cases in eight months. Health officials reported a pause in the COVID-19 death toll to start the final week in May, a repeat of last Monday. It's one of a range of indicators that show the pandemic receding in Minnesota, including a drop in the number of active cases below 6,000 for the first time since the middle of September. The number of new cases has stayed below 1,000 a day for 10 straight days now, and the seven-day rolling average of positive tests has now fallen below 3 percent for the first time since February. Subscribe to our Minnesota Today podcast to get the up-to-date Minnesota news twice daily. — Tim Nelson | MPR News | 