Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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The Sunday high temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was a chilly 39 degrees. That’s 11 degrees colder than our average Nov. 1 Twin Cities high of 50 degrees.

The upper-air flow will transition from northwesterly to westerly early this week, and that will give us warmer temperatures that will linger for several days.

Highs on Monday will be in the 40s in northern Minnesota, with mainly 50s in central and southern Minnesota plus western Wisconsin:

Southwestern Minnesota will see some lower 60s.

If you’re voting this Tuesday, the weather will be very cooperative.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model isn’t showing any precipitation in Minnesota or western Wisconsin Tuesday or Tuesday evening:

Minnesota and western Wisconsin temperatures will be mainly in the 30s around sunrise on Tuesday, then temps warm nicely … topping out in the 50s and 60s in most locations Tuesday afternoon:

Southwestern and west-central Minnesota may see some lower 70s.

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The Minnesota State Climatology Office has compiled a nice history of 

Our most recent snowfall in the Twin Cities on a Presidential Election Day was in 2000, when we tallied 1.2 inches of snow.

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the mid 60s Wednesday and Thursday, followed by upper 60s on Friday. We have a shot at upper 60s again on Saturday. One forecast model shows some clouds and rain showers by Sunday afternoon, with a high in the mid 60s. 

Temps may plummet on Monday Nov. 9 and cool temps may then linger through the middle of November.  The temperature outlook from the NWS Climate Prediction Center shows a tendency toward below-normal temps in Minnesota and western Wisconsin from Nov. 9 through Nov. 15:

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

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