Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Our weather forecast will be a little bit of both through Friday into part of Saturday. Occasional, scattered rain and thunder will pop up around a weak low-pressure system through Friday and into Saturday. I expect more dry hours than rain at any one spot in Minnesota, but most of us will get wet at some point. 

NOAA’s GFS model is typical of models that drag a slow-moving low-pressure system through Minnesota through Saturday. Scattered rain will move generally northeast through Friday. Showers will likely be less numerous Saturday as the system pulls eastward into Wisconsin. 

Much of Minnesota looks likely to pick up between 0.25 and 0.75 inches by Saturday. But there could be a swath of locally heavier rainfall through central Minnesota, with 1 inch or more in some locations. Here’s another look at the European model output:

Clouds and a few spotty showers linger Saturday. Sunday brings the sunnier day this weekend. Highs should be in the 60s to 70s around Minnesota. 

The first full week of October in Minnesota looks very pleasant. Skies look generally sunny to partly cloudy. Highs will run about 5 to 10 degrees warmer than average next week with 60s northeast and 70s south and west.

Warmer than average temperatures are favored on the outlooks into mid-October.

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There will be more dry hours than rain through Friday. But occasional showers and thunder will roam Minnesota. 

European model (ECMWF) precipitation output

Tracking occasional scattered rain and thunder through Friday

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