Two more cooler-than-normal days before a warmup begins

Cool air from Canada brought us frosty temperatures Tuesday morning. Clouds will build again as weak daytime heating and cyclonic flow on the backside of low pressure over eastern Canada provide lift.

After a cool start with morning lows mainly in the 20s and low 30s, Tuesday afternoon will be a bit chillier than normal again. High temperatures should range from the mid-30s in the north to the low 40s in the south. Much like on Monday, scattered snow showers are likely again in northeastern Minnesota.

The Twin Cities will have increasing clouds and just the possibility of a stray flake or drip. The afternoon high should be near 42 with a light northwest wind around 10 mph.

Wednesday will bring another frosty morning with widespread lows in the 20s. Afternoon temperatures will again be on the cool side.

Major warmup later this week

The warmup will begin on Thursday as southerly flow around high pressure to our southeast brings near-normal temperatures.

Then it just gets better. Afternoon temperatures will definitely be on the pleasant side through the weekend. Saturday is likely to be the warmest day. Highs in much of the southern half of Minnesota should warm at least into the upper 50s with some spots likely touching 60 degrees.

Long-range forecast models continue that mild-for-November weather well into next week.

Bonus: Tropical update

After quite a lull in what had been a busy season for tropical storms, Tropical Storm Wanda has formed over the central Atlantic Ocean.

No Atlantic tropical storm names begin with X, Y or Z because there aren’t enough of those names to make up the six-year name rotation. So now we have used the entire Atlantic alphabet. If another Atlantic storm develops, the National Hurricane Center will go to a supplemental list of names. They have abandoned the use of Greek letters for those extra storms because it was deemed too confusing when they were used for that purpose in the record tropical storm year of 2020.