Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Dense fog blanketed parts of western Minnesota Sunday morning. Portions of western Minnesota and a small section of central Minnesota will see areas of dense fog Sunday night into Monday morning.

Dense fog advisories run from 11 p.m. this Sunday to 11 a.m. Monday in the grey-shaded areas on this map:

Here are details of the portion of the advisory that includes St. Cloud:

There could be some patchy fog and freezing fog in the Twin Cities metro area late Sunday night and Monday morning.

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR 

, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News 

The short answer for most of Minnesota is “no”.

Parts of far western Minnesota may see some clearing Monday afternoon. Here’s NOAA’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model’s depiction of cloud cover Monday afternoon:

The NAM model shows clouds blanketing eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin throughout Monday.

Most areas will have Monday afternoon highs in the 30s, with some 40s in southwestern Minnesota and parts of west-central Minnesota:

Winds will be light in most areas, but they could gust to 12-16 mph in far western Minnesota by Monday afternoon:

Plotted values are in knots, with 7 knots equal to about 8 mph and 13 knots equal to 15 mph.

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the mid 40s Tuesday and around 

 on Wednesday. We could top out in the mid 40s on Thursday, followed by upper 30s Friday.

By the way, parts of southwestern Minnesota could reach the upper 50s Wednesday afternoon.

Forecast models haven’t reached agreement on our rain/snow chances Friday and Saturday. 

Here’s the Sunday afternoon run of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System (GFS) model, showing the potential precipitation pattern from Friday morning through Saturday evening:

This track would give the Twin Cities metro area a mix of rain and snow early on Friday, then mainly rain until the system pulls away on Saturday. Western and northern Minnesota would see the highest snow amounts in that scenario. Some other forecast models keep the accumulating snow in mainly northern Minnesota.

Bottom line, it’s way too early to forecast who will get accumulating snow this Friday or Saturday. Check forecast updates as we get closer to Friday.

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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Some areas will see dense fog Sunday night and Monday. We have details on that, plus who may actually see some sunshine Monday afternoon. We also have an update on the rain/snow potential later in the week.

A murky Monday; warmer temps midweek, then a rain/snow chance Friday

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