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Don’t spend a lot of time combing your hair before you head outside today. Winds will be very gusty through the afternoon.

Winds will gust to 40 mph or higher at times in the metro area and southern Minnesota:

Wind advisories continue until 4 p.m. this Sunday in Hennepin County plus the south metro and much of southern Minnesota:

Scattered showers are expected to develop in western Minnesota early Sunday afternoon, then spread eastward through the remainder of the afternoon and into Sunday evening. Our rain shower chance in the metro area appears to be from late afternoon into early Sunday evening.

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR 

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

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 44 degrees on March 21. Parts of the metro area will top out in the lower 60s this Sunday afternoon. Highs in the 50s are expected across much of Minnesota, with lower 60s from the metro area into southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Highs in the 40s are expected in northern Minnesota on Monday, with 50s to the south:

Monday wind gusts will be fairly light, in the 8-12 mph range:

Plotted gusts are in knots, with 8 knots equal to slightly over 9 mph.

Back to temperatures, Twin Cities highs are projected to reach the lower 50s Tuesday, followed by mid 40s Wednesday and Thursday and upper 40s on Friday.

A low pressure system will spin moisture over Minnesota and western Wisconsin Monday evening into Tuesday, and the precipitation will continue through much of Wednesday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern for Monday evening through Tuesday evening:

The rain may mix with snow or turn to mostly snow from west-central Minnesota into northern Minnesota Tuesday p.m. into Wednesday. Check forecast updates.

Many areas can expect anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of precipitation (rain plus the water content of any snow) from Monday evening through Wednesday:

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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