Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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The coverage of scattered morning showers and thunderstorms in parts of northwestern Minnesota is shrinking as of 10 a.m. Sunday. Most of Minnesota will have a dry afternoon.

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

, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News 

Fire weather conditions are near-critical in much of Minnesota today, due to low relative humidity and dry conditions plus gusty winds:

A fire weather watch has been posted from northern Minnesota through central Minnesota and parts of southern Minnesota until 8 p.m. this Sunday evening:

Carver County of the west metro is included in the fire weather watch.

Here are details of the fire weather watch:

You can check the links at the beginning of this blog for updates on possible red flag warnings Sunday afternoon.

Sunday highs will be mainly in the 80s, with some lower 90s in parts of northwestern and north-central Minnesota.

Monday highs will be similar to today’s highs:

Monday dew points will be mainly in the 50s, with some stickier 60s to the west:

Back to high temperatures, Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the upper 80s to around 90 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, then lower 80s on Friday. 

Some forecast models show spotty rain opportunities in Minnesota Tuesday night and Wednesday.

Several forecast models show a good chance of some periods of rain later in the week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System GFS model has this potential rain pattern for Thursday morning through Friday evening:

Pay less attention to the exact location of the rain in the GFS model than the fact that there are numerous areas of rain. Let’s hope that many of us see at least some periods of rain on Thursday and Friday.

Sunset is at 8:18 this Sunday evening in the Twin Cities.  On September 15, our sunset is at 7:23 p.m.  On October 15 the sun will set at 6:27 p.m. in the Twin Cities….that’s almost two hours earlier than today’s sunset.

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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