Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Sunday’s warmer temps brought smiles to many faces and turned our thoughts to spring activities.

The Sunday high temp of 43 degrees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport marked our first 40s in the Twin Cities since March 1. We have even warmer weather in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. 

Sunday night snow lingers into Monday morning

A band of snow is expected to spread across central Minnesota Sunday evening and expand into parts of western Wisconsin overnight Sunday night. Snow lingers into Monday morning in many areas.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh (HRRR) model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 9 p.m. Sunday to 4 p.m. on Monday:

NOAA’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the snow spreading a bit  deeper into the Twin Cities metro area Monday morning:

In either scenario, the highest snow accumulations are expected to be from central Minnesota into portions of western Wisconsin.

Here’s the Duluth NWS snow forecast for Sunday night through Monday morning:

Notice the 2 to 3 inch amounts from St. Cloud eastward, with 3 to 4 inches in parts of west-central and northwestern Wisconsin.

Winter weather advisories (shaded blue on the right-side graphic) run from 3 a.m. to noon Monday in Polk, Barron and Rusk counties of Wisconsin and from 2 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday for Burnett, Washburn and Sawyer counties of Wisconsin.

The far northern part of the Twin Cities metro area could see a couple inches of slushy snow Monday morning, with an inch or less of snow across most of the metro area. Here are NWS odds of snow accumulation in central/southern Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin, with “tonight” referring to Sunday night:

The flakes could be mixed with a bit of drizzle or light rain on Monday, with patchy freezing drizzle and light freezing rain also possible Monday morning.

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

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Monday highs will be mainly in the 30s, with 40s in southeastern Minnesota:

Some spots in the Twin Cities metro area could top 40.

Tuesday highs reach the 50s in southern Minnesota, with mainly 40s elsewhere:

We’ll probably touch 50 degrees Tuesday afternoon in the metro area, and a few spots in the metro could reach the lower 50s. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 60 degree reading Tuesday afternoon in southwestern Minnesota.

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the upper 50s on Wednesday, followed by upper 40s Thursday and around 50 on Friday. We could even see a 60 somewhere in the metro area Wednesday afternoon, since our snow cover will be rapidly shrinking this 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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Ron Trenda

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We had gorgeous March weather on Sunday, but snow is in the forecast for some areas Sunday night and Monday morning. We have the forecast details, including the warmth that’s expected by midweek.

Snow at times Sunday night and Monday AM; warmest temps on Wednesday

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