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Record highs falling Tuesday; rain and snow arrive Wednesday

Temperatures in the 60s pushing into Minnesota

Temperatures Tuesday afternoon
Temperatures Tuesday afternoon
Oklahoma Mesonet

Our long-anticipated Tuesday warm front has arrived. Temperatures are surging into the 60s across most of southern and western Minnesota, with 50s up north.

Record highs falling

Many locations in Minnesota will set record high temperatures Tuesday. The Twin Cities has already broken a 132-year-old record. Tuesday’s record high of 61 degrees was set back in 1879.

Several high-temperature records have fallen in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Wednesday rain and snow

A low-pressure system tracks through southeast Minnesota Tuesday. The rain-snow line will set up across central Minnesota. It will be mostly rain in the Twin Cities, with snow from west-central Minnesota to the North Shore.

NOAA’s GFS model paints the rain and snow zones across Minnesota Wednesday into early Thursday.

NOAA GFS model Wednesday
NOAA GFS model Wednesday
NOAA via tropical tidbits

Precipitation will fall as mostly rain for the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota. More than .50 inch will fall in many locations.

European model (ECMWF) precipitation output
European model (ECMWF) precipitation output
ECMWF via pivotal weather

A band of 2 to 4 inches is likely from near Ortonville through Brainerd. The Iron Range and North Shore communities could pick up heavier 3 to 6 inches snowfall total.

Here is the latest National Weather Service Twin Cities snowfall projection.

Snowfall projection
Snowfall projection by Thursday morning.
Twin Cities National Weather Service

The Iron Range and North Shore communities could pick up heavier 3 to 6 inches snowfall total.

Here’s the European model snowfall output.

Snowfall projection  ECMWF
European model snowfall projection
ECMWF via pivotal weather