Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Sunday was a fairly typical late-January day, with a high at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport of 23 degrees. That’s just shy of our average Jan. 30 high of 24 degrees.

Monday’s high temps will reach the 30s across much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin, with 20s in north-central and northeastern Minnesota:

A few spots in far southwestern Minnesota could top 40 degrees.

Winds will increase on Monday, with afternoon gusts over 20 mph in some areas. Here are the forecast wind gusts for noon on Monday:

Forecast wind gusts are in knots, with 18 knots equal 20.7 mph. The winds in northern Minnesota will ramp up quite a bit by Monday evening.

Snow and strong winds northern Minnesota Monday evening into Tuesday

Parts of northwestern Minnesota will see snow begin by Monday evening, with the snow spreading across much of northern Minnesota Monday night into early Tuesday.

NOAA’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from noon Monday to noon Tuesday:

Strong winds could cause severely reduced visibilities Monday evening into Tuesday, so the NWS has issued a winter storm watch from 6 p.m. Monday to 3 p.m. Tuesday in portions of northwestern Minnesota:

Here are details of the winter storm watch in northwestern Minnesota that begins Monday evening:

The following NWS chart shows the potential for blizzard conditions in various locations:

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 

After a Monday high in the 30s, Twin Cities temps will retreat sharply. Twin Cities temps are forecast to be around 30 degrees at 1 or 2 in the morning on Tuesday, then we’ll have falling temps—through the 20s during the morning hours then into the teens Tuesday afternoon. Arctic cold returns for Tuesday night through Thursday. Metro area highs will be in the single-digits Wednesday and Thursday, followed by upper teens on Friday. One forecast model shows Twin Cities highs close to 30 degrees next weekend.

Minnesota’s coldest low temps this week will be early Thursday morning, with teens and 20s below zero:

Thursday highs will be in the single-digits either side of zero:

It’ll really feel great when our temps recover next weekend!

Our average Twin Cities high temp goes from 24 degrees at the end of January to 34 degrees at the end of February.  Our average Twin Cities high is 49 degrees at the end of March and 63 degrees at the end of April.

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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