Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

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I know, our weekend weather has been less than ideal. 

A pesky low pressure system over western Wisconsin has been bringing rain to much of Minnesota and Wisconsin Sunday morning.  The low pressure system will move slowly away Sunday afternoon, so the rain will gradually lift off to the northeast as we go through the afternoon hours. 

Parts of the Twin Cities metro area could see periods of showers linger into early afternoon. There will be periods of showers through much of Sunday afternoon in north-central and northeastern Minnesota as well as northwestern and west-central Wisconsin.

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 

Flood warnings continue along the Red River and along some smaller rivers in northwestern Minnesota for several more days. Additional portions of northwestern Minnesota are also in flood warnings through Sunday evening. Flood warnings are shaded light green in the following graphic:

You can get flood warning details by clicking on any location at the NWS 

The NWS has posted these flood safety tips:

A flood watch continues through Sunday evening along and near the North Shore of Lake Superior:

 site shows river gauges across our region. You can click on any gauge at that site to get recent and current river levels plus the forecast levels over the next few days.

Here’s the hydrograph for the Red Lake River at Crookston, Minnesota, which has returned to major flood stage today:

The Red River at Oslo, Minnesota remains at major flood stage:

The Red River at Grand Forks is forecast to reach major flood stage late Monday:

The St. Croix River at Stillwater is forecast to rise about one and one-half feet this week, but it will stay below official flood stage over the next seven days:

Our average Twin Cities high temperature is 64 degrees on May 1. Metro area highs will be mainly in the upper 40s Sunday afternoon, with a shot at 50. Many locations in Minnesota will see Sunday highs in the 40s.

Monday highs will be in the 40s in northern and western Minnesota, with 50s from the Twin Cities into southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Monday afternoon wind gusts could reach 15 to 20 mph in northern and western Minnesota:

Forecast gusts are in knots, with 14 knots equal to 16.1 mph. 

Back to temperatures, Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the mid 50s Tuesday, then around 60 on Wednesday, followed by lower 60s Thursday and mid 60s on Friday.

April 2022 was 6.1 degrees cooler than normal.  That’s based on the average of all the daily high temps and low temps at MSP airport. Precipitation (rain plus the water content of the 1.6 inches of snow) was 1.08 inches above normal in April:

Notice that we had 2 sunny days, 11 cloudy days and 17 partly cloudy days in 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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Showers will linger into Sunday afternoon in some areas. We have more on that, plus a northwestern Minnesota flooding update and a look at the week ahead.

Showers linger into Sunday afternoon in some areas; dry Monday

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