MPR News Chief Meteorologist Paul Huttner signs off

MPR News helps you turn down the noise and build shared understanding. Turn up your support for this public resource and keep trusted journalism accessible to all. 

Turn Up Your Support

Our Sunday afternoon weather won’t interfere with outdoor activities. Most areas will have ample sunshine. Highs will be in the 30s across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. A few spots in far western Minnesota could even top 40. Southwesterly breezes will be a bit gusty at times.

Monday highs will be in the 30s in most areas:

Some spots in the Twin Cities metro area could creep into the upper 30s. Our average Twin Cities high is 29 degrees on Dec. 13. Winds will be fairly light on Monday.

Twin Cities highs are projected to reach the upper 30s Tuesday, then upper 40s on Wednesday. A few spots in the metro area could touch 50 degrees Wednesday afternoon. Far southern Minnesota will have Wednesday highs in the 50s. Twin Cities metro area highs for Thursday will be around 40 degrees at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m., followed by falling temps…into the upper 20s by Thursday afternoon. The high on Friday is expected to be in the mid 20s.

NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) model shows a low pressure system spreading rain (and some snow) into Minnesota and western Wisconsin Wednesday and Wednesday night:

The southeastern half of Minnesota plus western Wisconsin would tend to see periods of rain Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night, with a few claps of thunder also possible. There will probably some snow in northern Minnesota Wednesday evening into early Thursday. 

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

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

Our average Twin Cities snowfall total for the entire month of December is 11.4 inches.  MSP airport has already tallied 14.3 inches of snow this December, which includes 11.8 inches from Friday’s storm.

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.

Weather and Climate News

Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Ron Trenda

Author

Weather won’t interfere with outdoor plans Sunday afternoon or evening. We have the forecast update, including some big changes in our weather Wednesday into Thursday.

Heavy snow in parts of the Twin Cities metro area

Above-normal highs through midweek, then temps retreat

Go Deeper.

Like this?

News you can use in your inbox