Saturday night rain/wintry mix; flake chance early Sunday, with cooler temps
Mild start to next week
A wintry mix of light rain, drizzle, freezing drizzle and light snow will move across Minnesota and western Wisconsin Saturday night into early Sunday.
The best chance of freezing drizzle will be to the north, and there’s a winter weather advisory from 10 p.m. this Saturday until 10 a.m. Sunday for much of northeastern Minnesota:
Parts of northeastern Minnesota could see snow accumulations of 1 to 2 inches by Sunday morning, with an inch or so in western Wisconsin and portions of southeastern Minnesota. The Twin Cities metro area is expected to see mainly periods of light rain and drizzle overnight Saturday night, possibly mixed with some flakes at times. There could be a few flurries in the metro area early on Sunday.
The Duluth office and the Twin Cities office and the La Crosse, Wisc. office of the National Weather Service will have weather updates overnight and early Sunday.
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Temperature trends
Our Saturday high of 46 degrees in the Twin Cities was five degrees warmer than our average Nov. 16 high temp. It was also our “warmest” high in the Twin Cities since the 56 degree reading on Oct. 26.
Highs Sunday will be in the 30s in most areas, with a few lower 40s in southwestern Minnesota. Metro area highs reach the upper 30s.
Highs in the 40s return to the Twin Cities and the remainder of southern Minnesota on Monday:
There will be a lot of 40s on Tuesday:
Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the lower 40s Wednesday, followed by mid 30s Thursday and Friday.
Wednesday PM rain and snow?
The Canadian forecast model shows some snow in northern Minnesota Wednesday into Wednesday night, with a chance of rain or a rain/snow mix in the south Wednesday PM and early Thursday:
This will be interesting to watch as we get closer to Wednesday.
Programming note
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