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00:00Well, it was another cold morning this morning, but that might be the last wintery-like morning
00:03for a while, at least for southern Minnesota. Temperatures start to warm up today. We've got
00:07a few showers on the way next couple days with some snow in northeastern Minnesota and much
00:11warmer temperatures by the weekend.
00:23Yeah, downright winter-like. Below zero up on Seagull Lake in the boundary waters,
00:28Graham Ray was six below zero earlier this morning. Lots of single digits throughout
00:32northeastern Minnesota. 20s across southern Minnesota, sub-freezing, but not nearly as
00:37dramatically colder. 24 at MSP, coldest reading in a little more than two weeks, and that might be
00:42the coldest we see in a while here. Looking through the next couple weeks, temperatures are much warmer,
00:47and then that takes us to late April, which harder and harder to get anything significant as far as
00:52cold air. We've got just a few high clouds moving through today. Warmer already, a good 10-degree
00:56jump up in temperatures near 50 in the Twin Cities, I think into the 50s for southwestern Minnesota.
01:02Still 40s, 30s, and even just near 30 in the Arrowhead region, but high pressure starts to
01:07depart today. Still sunshine, but we get in this return flow, we call it, where air will be coming
01:12from the south again between that approaching low for the next couple of days and that high
01:16pressure that departs. So we will start to see some rain and, yes, even snow showers in northeastern
01:20Minnesota where it will be colder tomorrow already. But it's going to be warmer tomorrow too, despite an
01:26increase in cloud cover. Southern Minnesota will be warmer. We'll see a little more sun. 60 in the
01:30Twin Cities, probably into the 60s for southwestern Minnesota. But we will start to see some showers
01:34already early tomorrow. And, yes, you can see some snow showers mixing in with the rain into parts of
01:39northeastern Minnesota, especially the North Shore. It looks like around Silver Bay, we could get up to a
01:43couple of inches of some fresh slushy snow tomorrow into tomorrow night. Well, further south, these showers
01:48are really going to be much more isolated and spotty into tomorrow and Thursday. But we will see, as I mentioned,
01:54a bit more in the way of cloud cover. As far as total precip, this is liquid equivalent. Most
02:00significant northeastern Minnesota. But even there, we're talking a quarter of an inch of precip or
02:04less. And then, as you see, further south, it's going to be really trace amounts here, probably a
02:09tenth of an inch or less for the Twin Cities in southern Minnesota. But a little pocket of snow there
02:14where it'll be just cold enough tomorrow into tomorrow night. Again, a couple of inches around the
02:18North Shore. Some models hinting at maybe three, four inches. We'll have to see how that pans out.
02:22These are going to be very small, narrow areas of snow bands. And then cold air departs. This is the
02:28upper level pattern. We have an upper level ridge building in. That's high pressure aloft in the
02:32middle of the atmosphere. That means warm air for us. Temperature is going to be above normal
02:36for the end of the week into the weekend by Sunday. Widespread 70s here across southern Minnesota.
02:42In fact, probably low, maybe even mid-70s for the southwestern part of the state. So
02:47that's pretty nice. About 20 degrees above normal almost by Sunday. And Sunday will also bring the
02:53next system potentially. Now, the European model is the most aggressive right now with showers kind
02:57of widespread Sunday across the state. If that happens, we may not hit that 70 degree mark,
03:02though. We might be below that if we have that much shower activity and clouds. So we'll be watching
03:06that for the second half of the weekend. Models still different on timing and placement of those
03:11potential showers. But tomorrow and Thursday, pretty insignificant system. Very hit and miss
03:16for us in the southern half of the state. This is not a repeat of the last several systems we've had,
03:21which have been soakers for both rainfall and snowfall across the state. These are more of a
03:26minor clipper system kind of moving through tomorrow. Near 50 today, lots of sun. Tomorrow,
03:32Thursday, more clouds, but it will still be warmer. Just a warmer air mass here coming in
03:36behind that brief but potent chunk of cold we had the last 36 hours. And then it's back to spring fever
03:43as we head into the weekend.