Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Wednesday will bring our warmest temperatures yet this year for many. Highs will range from the 50s and 60s in the south to the 40s north. 

In the Twin Cities, we have a decent chance of hitting our first 60-degree reading. It will be close and depend on the precise timing of a cool front sweeping across Minnesota later Wednesday. That front will increase cloud cover this afternoon and touch off a few light rain showers in northern Minnesota.

Temperatures Wednesday night will be lower in northern Minnesota, back below freezing while southern Minnesota again remains mild.

While cooler Thursday, temperatures will still be above normal with 40s and 50s in the south and 30s north.

Temperatures will be warming back up for the weekend with southern Minnesota seeing more 50s and even 60s Sunday. The overall pattern remains mild until perhaps late next week when the upper-level pattern will turn toward a cooler one for at least a few days.

The United States Senate passed a bill that would make 

 on Tuesday. If the bill became law, what would Minnesota’s sunrise and sunset times look like?

The chart above winter sunrise and sunset times would change. While we could get more evening light in December with a 5:32 p.m. sunset, the sunrise wouldn’t be until 8:44 a.m. in mid-December. 

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A mild Wednesday with widespread 50s and even 60s in southern Minnesota will give way to cooler temperatures Thursday behind a cold front. Northern Minnesota could see a few light rain showers Wednesday as well. 

It will be another very mild day Wednesday with widespread 50s, even 60s in southern Minnesota and 40s to the north. A cool front will bring increased cloud cover and a few sprinkles possible.

A warm Wednesday; cooler air moves in Thursday

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