Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Colder air is pouring into Minnesota this week. The brisk northwest flow drove scattered showers across Minnesota Wednesday. 

Pea-sized hail fell at the Twin Cities NWS office in Chanhassen. 

Temperatures bottom out Friday and Saturday morning

The core of the coldest air passes over Minnesota Friday into early Saturday. Low temperatures both mornings will reach the 30s across most of Minnesota. The Twin Cities inner metro core may hover a few degrees above freezing, but frost is likely in the suburbs and across most of Minnesota Friday and Saturday morning.

Frost and freeze warnings are likely again Thursday night into Friday morning. The average date for the first 32-degree temperature in fall at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport is Oct. 10. It’s earlier in the suburbs.

Termperatures recover next week. Highs back into 60s and 70s look likely across most of southern and western Minnesota.

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Paul Huttner

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The first freeze of the season is likely Friday morning for parts of central and southern Minnesota.

Forecast low temperatures Saturday morning

Sep-tober breeze: Frost and freeze warnings likely Thursday night

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