Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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rain showers into much of western and northern Minnesota this morning, possibly mixed with a few flakes, then it’ll be mainly rain in those areas during the afternoon hours. 

The rain coverage expands into central Minnesota this afternoon, then into east-central Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin this evening. The precipitation in northern Minnesota could transition to a rain/snow mix this evening, then change over to all snow overnight tonight

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 9 a.m. Sunday to 11 p.m. Sunday:

The Twin Cities metro area could see a few scattered rain showers very late this afternoon and this evening.   

The NWS has issued winter weather advisory for much of northeastern Minnesota from 7 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Monday:

Here are details of the advisory (see insert above) in northeastern Minnesota this evening and overnight:

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 

Sunday highs will reach the 40s in roughly the northwestern half of Minnesota, with 50s in the southeastern half of Minnesota and into western Wisconsin:

A few spots in south-central and southeastern Minnesota could touch 60.

Sunday afternoon wind gusts will be highest in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Forecast wind gusts are in knots, with 20 knots equal to 23 mph.

Snow lovers will be interested to know that there’s still plenty of snow on the ground in north-central and northeastern Minnesota. Here’s the weekly snow depth map from the Minnesota State Climatology Office:

Most of north-central Minnesota has 8 inches or more of snow on the ground. Northeastern Minnesota has 12 inches or more of snow on the ground, with 18 inches or more of snow cover in portions of eastern Lake County and 24 inches or more of snow cover in much of Cook County.

A new updraft will be posted around 10:30 a.m. with a look at the week ahead.

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’ll have more clouds and stronger winds today than we had on Saturday. Western and northern Minnesota will have the best chance of Sunday rain or a rain/snow mix.

A breezy Sunday, best rain/mix chances western and northern Minnesota

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