A very mild week is on its way
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"Murky" is the word for this morning, again.
Low clouds blanketed much of Minnesota overnight and prevented temperatures from falling. There has been some fog as well, but visibilities have been increasing as the wind has picked up a bit late in the night. The last dense fog advisory in the state is set to expire at 8 a.m. for the Duluth-Hinckley area along Interstate 35.
The stratus clouds will lift slowly and should break up by late morning or early afternoon.
Highs today likely will range from the upper 30s in northern Minnesota to the mid 40s from the Twin Cities to southern Minnesota. The normal high for the Twin Cities today is 30 degrees.
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This week's weather will feature mainly weak weather systems embedded in a pattern of unseasonably mild temperatures.
Thursday might be the warmest day of the week as warm air and a lack of snow cover push temperatures to near 50 in the metro area and across southern Minnesota.
A couple of weak weather systems will track toward us. The first one will bring a chance of rain showers tomorrow afternoon.
Then another chance of rain should arrive on Thursday. The very mild temperatures and showers might make it feel more like an early spring day than one in December. By Thursday night, cooling temperatures could change some of the precipitation over to a little snow in northern Minnesota.
A much more significant buckling of the jet stream is forecast to develop a bit more of an actual weather-maker as the weekend approaches.
Although the models are not yet in agreement this far in advance, the best bet at this time is for a mixture of rain and snow for Minnesota from Friday night into Saturday. The best chance for accumulating snow will be in northern Minnesota, but it is not likely to become a big storm.
A look at the forecasting models way out into next week indicate the possibility of an actual storm arriving in Minnesota around Tuesday, Dec. 15. Even that one could feature mainly rain for much of its duration before transitioning over to snow the next day.
