Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Congratulations Minnesota! You're about to host the coldest Super Bowl on record.

Temperatures in the Twin Cities will plunge to between -10 and -15 around the Twin Cities early Sunday morning. Thermometers will likely struggle to rise much above the zero mark Super Bowl Sunday. That will make this the coldest Super Bowl in any host city on record.

The coldest Super Bowl on record was also played indoors in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982. The high temperature 

 the Pontiac Silverdome was 16 degrees. The Twin Cities high somewhere near zero this Sunday will blow that number out of the (frozen) water.

To my eye this National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Forecast System model 2-meter air temperature loop may not be far off the mark for Super Bowl Sunday.

I think the Twin Cities may hover near the zero mark at game-time. The weather maps will be bathed in purple Sunday. Poetic justice for a state that identifies with the Vikings and Prince perhaps?

Sunday's inbound arctic air mass should have no problem cementing Minnesota as the cold weather Super Bowl champion. Here are some cold hard 

Factor in the wind Sunday and it will feel well below zero all day. Here's the wind chill map for 1 p.m. Sunday as fans are celebrating their way to the big game.

No doubt the national media will have a field day with our legendary cold Sunday. Minnesota might just earn our reputation back as the Icebox of the Nation.

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Paul Huttner

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The weather maps are bathed in purple for Super Bowl Sunday.

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