Winter storm warnings in northern Minnesota

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The Sunday afternoon high temp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 6 degrees above zero. Our average Twin Cities high temp is 24 degrees this time of year. Much of northern Minnesota stayed below zero Sunday afternoon.

Low temps late Sunday night and early Monday morning are forecast to reach the 20s below zero in roughly the northern half of Minnesota, with teens below and single-digits below zero to the south. Twin Cities metro area lows may dip to about -10 near the downtown areas to -15 or so in the outer suburbs.

A wind chill warning starts at 6 p.m. Sunday and runs to noon on Monday in northwestern Minnesota:

Here are details of the wind chill warning:

Wind chill warnings begin at midnight Sunday night and run to 9 a.m. Monday in north-central and northeastern Minnesota. “Tonight” in the following graphic refers to Sunday night:

Wind chill advisories cover central through southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin Sunday night into Monday morning:

The wind chill advisory from Willmar, Minnesota through Anoka County and into west-central Wisconsin starts at 9 p.m. Sunday and runs to 10 a.m. Monday.

The wind chill advisory for the remainder of the metro area runs from midnight Sunday night through 10 a.m. Monday:

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 

Monday high temps will be below zero in northern Minnesota, with single digits above zero in southern Minnesota and much of western Wisconsin:

Parts of far southwestern Minnesota could reach the lower teens.

Tuesday highs will be mainly in the 20s, with some 30s in west-central and southern Minnesota:

That’s an impressive recovery from the arctic cold of Monday!

Twin Cities metro area highs hit around 30 degrees on Tuesday, followed by mid 30s Wednesday and Thursday, then lower 30s Friday. There’s a chance of snow Thursday night and Friday; check forecast updates.

The NWS Climate Prediction Center shows a tendency for near-normal temperatures next weekend into the beginning of the following week:

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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We’re running out of ways to say “cold”. Your warmest coat, gloves and hat will be needed on  Monday, then temperatures rebound nicely from Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday. We have the forecast details.

Arctic cold through Monday; big warmup begins on Tuesday

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