Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Another arctic swipe blows through Minnesota into Wednesday morning. The core of this latest subzero air mass will only last about 40 hours for most of Minnesota. 

Temperatures could challenge the coldest readings so far this winter in the Twin Cities Wednesday morning. The coldest temperature recorded so far this winter at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is 17 below zero on Jan. 7. 

 cover a huge chunk of Minnesota through Wednesday morning. The warnings zone runs from northwest Minnesota through south-central Minnesota to the Iowa border. 

Temperatures Tuesday morning will tickle minus 30 once again in parts of northern Minnesota. Most of southern Minnesota will bottom out between minus 10 and minus 18 Tuesday.

The core of the coldest air with this outbreak will slide across southern Minnesota early Wednesday. Lows will reach minus 15 to minus 20 across southern Minnesota. Temperatures in northern Minnesota will moderate slightly by early Wednesday. 

Temperatures moderate by this weekend with highs in the teens and 20s above zero. 

Note the persistent appearance of relative warmth again in Nebraska and Kansas with temperatures in the 50s Sunday. There is little snow cover from Sioux Falls, S.D., south and west. While it’s been a real winter in Minnesota, winter has yet to really take consistent hold in the central plains. 

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Paul Huttner

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A brief but frigid arctic air mass moves in through Wednesday morning. Temperatures could challenge the coldest readings so far this winter in the Twin Cities.

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, via pivotal weather

Twin Cities National Weather Service

Forecast low temperatures Tuesday morning

Arctic again: Twin Cities could hit 17 below Wednesday morning

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