Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Our chilly, rainy April flashback has many of us asking: When will the warmer air will return?

First we have to get through a few cooler nights, especially in northern Minnesota. 

are up into Friday morning for central and northern Minnesota and much of North Dakota. 

Temperatures slowly moderate back into the 70s over Memorial Day weekend. Ron Trenda posted a 

detailed Memorial Day weekend forecast here

. In this post, I gaze ahead dreamily at a more summery forecast next week.

Meteorologists watch upper air trends closely to gauge overall temperature patterns in the one to two-week forecast range. Take a look at Thursday’s upper air maps. You can see the cool blue blob over the Upper Midwest with our Thursday rain event.

Now take a look at the forecast for next weekend. NOAA’s GFS model upper air forecast chart for Sunday, June 6 shows a building ridge of warm high pressure across the Upper Midwest. 

The European model cranks out highs into the 80s to near 90 degrees across southern Minnesota by the first weekend in June.

Now check out the upper air forecast chart for June 9. It cranks up a huge dome of unseasonably hot air across the Upper Midwest. Patterns like this typically produce highs well into the 90s.

If this pattern verifies, we could see an intense early June heatwave build up over the Upper Midwest in about two weeks.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

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After a chill wet Thursday, temperatures gradually moderate this weekend. Highs in the 70s and 80s are on the horizon next week. 

Twin Cities National Weather Service

Duluth National Weather Service

NOAA GFS upper air forecast Thursday May 27

NOAA via tropical tidbits

NOAA GFS upper air forecast Sunday June 6

European model (ECMWF) temperature forecast 7 pm June 6

Freeze warnings to 90 degrees in about 10 days

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