New year's thaw: 2020 opens on mild notes
2020 opens on mild notes
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2020 picks up where 2019 left off — on the mild side.
December goes into the weather books about 3 degrees warmer than average in the Twin Cities. Temperatures in northern Minnesota ran closer to average in central and northern Minnesota.
Temperatures ran more than 5 degrees warmer than average a little further south in eastern Iowa, southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
New year’s thaw
A quiet New Year’s Eve gives way to a thaw in early January. Highs in southern Minnesota could approach 40 degrees Thursday. Seasonably colder air returns Friday into the weekend.
Searching for subzero
Temperatures look seasonably colder for next week. The average high and low temperatures for the Twin Cities in the first week of January are 24 and 8.
Right now I don’t see any prolonged subzero outbreaks on the horizon. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center outlooks favor near to slightly above-average temperatures overall into mid-January.
Stay tuned.
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