Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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It’s a good thing that we went back to standard time last night. The extra hour of potential sleep helped make up for the times that strong winds rattled the windows and woke us up.

 included 56 mph at Holman Field Airport in St. Paul:

Strong winds will continue in northeastern and southeastern Minnesota plus western Wisconsin, where wind advisories continue this morning:

Wind advisories in southeastern Minnesota and in St. Louis County of northeastern Minnesota end at 9 a.m. today, wind advisories in Lake and Cook counties of northeastern Minnesota continue until noon. Wind advisories in western Wisconsin continue until 2 p.m. this Sunday.

Gale warnings continue until 2 p.m. for Lake Superior:

Updates can be found on the pages of the NWS 

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Highs in the 30s are expected in most areas today:

Southwestern Minnesota may see some lower 40s.

Here are the midday forecast wind gusts, which are strongest to the east:

Plotted values are in knots, with 23 knots equal to around 26 mph and 31 knots equal to around 36 mph.

This Updraft blog will be updated around 10 a.m. with details of the warmer temps that are expected this coming week.

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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Ron Trenda

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The window rattling winds of Saturday night will ease a bit today, but wind advisories continue to the east. We have your Sunday forecast.

Strongest winds shift east, cold Sunday

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