Cool Monday, followed by a warmup on Tuesday
A look at snow chances this week
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Our Sunday high temp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 23 degrees. That was just 3 degrees shy of our average Feb. 6 high in the Twin Cities. The temperature maxed out Sunday morning, followed by slowly falling temps Sunday afternoon.
Temperature trends
Monday’s highs will top 20 degrees in western Minnesota and much of southern Minnesota, with teens to the northeast:
Southwestern Minnesota will reach the 30s, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few spots in far southwestern Minnesota top 40 degrees.
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Tuesday highs reach the 30s in most areas, with some 40s southwest:
Twin Cities metro area highs will be around 20 degrees on Monday, then some spots in the metro area will touch 40 on Tuesday. Twin Cities highs retreat to the mid 30s for Wednesday and Thursday, followed by lower 30s Friday.
Snow chances?
Minnesota and western Wisconsin will have a chance of scattered light snow showers on Monday. Tuesday snow chances will be mainly in far northern Minnesota, and some spots could see a few rain showers mix with the snow showers Tuesday afternoon.
You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News network, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.
We’ll be watching the weather models for the possibility of accumulating snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Thursday afternoon and Thursday night. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Forecast System (GFS) model shows the potential precipitation pattern between noon Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday:
There are 6-hour gaps between the images, but the loop illustrates the general snow pattern of that system later this week. It’ll be interesting to see how the models depict changes in that snow potential as we go through the week.
Cold stretch one year ago
Our official Twin Cities high temp was in the single digits last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We started a much longer stretch of cold temps one year ago today.
Last February we had 10 consecutive days with Twin Cities highs in the single digits—from Feb. 6 through February 15. On four of those days, we had high temps that were in the single digits below zero:
Our furnaces were working overtime last February!
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