Another wintry storm Friday

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Friday brings another dry day to Minnesota. The weather maps crank up another wet system for Saturday.

Many of us could see an inch of rain with Saturday’s soaker. Sunday trends drier but stays blustery. Monday may renew your faith in the season formerly known as spring.

Brighter, milder days are ahead. April starts in one week. Spring is coming. We welcome every piece of good weather, and news, these days.

Friday looks like another good day to get outside for some quality, socially distant, exercise. Much of Minnesota will see mix of sun and clouds. Highs reach the 40s north and 50s south.

Our next weather system blows-in Saturday. A strong, wrapped up low-pressure storm tracks from Omaha, Neb., to Green Bay, Wis., this weekend. That’s a perfect track for heavy snow in Minnesota. But this system looks warm enough for mostly rain.

A few showers may pop up in southern Minnesota Friday night. The bulk of rain breaks out in southern Minnesota Saturday morning and spreads into the Twin Cities by midday. The heaviest rains spread across Minnesota Saturday afternoon and evening.

NOAA’s GFS model paints the rain — and snow — zones through this weekend.

This system looks strong enough to produce some potentially convective cores. We could hear a clap of thunder, and locally heavy downpours look likely.  Many of us will pick up and inch of rain, and we could see some local 2-inch totals.

NOAA’s GFS model lays out some hefty rainfall totals by midday Sunday.

Our weather mellows early next week. Highs push toward the 60-degree mark in southern Minnesota Monday. 

Temperatures in the 50s hang around most of next week.

If you’ve been watching temperatures south of Minnesota, you know it’s been unusually warm across the central and southern Plains. Highs reached the 90s Thursday as far north as Oklahoma. 

The clash of extreme air masses can be fuel for severe weather outbreaks. I have a hunch we may be seeing severe weather watches and warnings visit Minnesota earlier than usual this spring.

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Paul Huttner

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A dry Friday gives way to a wet weather system on Saturday. 

NOAA GFS precipitation forecast by midday Sunday

NOAA via pivotal weather 

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High temperature forecast Friday afternoon

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NOAA GFS model Friday evening through Sunday morning

Dry Friday then a Saturday soaker; pushing 60 by Monday?

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