Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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The Saturday high temp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 71 degrees. That’s 5 degrees shy of our average June 4 high, but it felt good.

Much of central Minnesota and parts of northern Minnesota had Saturday highs in the 70s, but far southern Minnesota saw a lot of 60s. Light winds overnight will allow temps to fall into the 30s in parts of northeastern Minnesota, where a frost advisory has been posted for 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday:

When winds are light, temps near the ground will be several degrees colder than the official temps that are measured 5 feet above the ground.

The green-shaded area in far northern Minnesota on the previous map has a frost advisory plus a flood warning.

The Duluth NWS office reported on Friday that Rainy Lake had reached a new record height:

Here’s a summary of flooding conditions in the Rainy River Basin:

 has additional information on the flooding.

Reporter Dan Kraker and other MPR News staff compiled a 

Much of southeastern Minnesota and southern Wisconsin will see some showers Sunday evening. A few very spotty showers are also possible elsewhere in southern Minnesota and in central Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Southeastern Minnesota could have scattered showers Sunday morning. Forecast models don’t agree on Sunday afternoon and evening rain chances. 

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

You’ll notice the main swath of rain spreading across southern Minnesota during the afternoon and evening hours.

NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh (HRRR) forecast model shows a less expansive area of rain in southern Minnesota Sunday afternoon and evening, with additional areas of rain in the remainder of Minnesota:

We’ll see if the forecast models come to a consensus about Sunday afternoon and evening rain chances when new runs of the models arrive later Sunday morning.

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 be mainly in the upper 60s to lower 70s:

Sunday afternoon wind gusts are expected to be in the 10 to 16 mph range in many areas, but gusts could be close to 20 mph in far northwestern Minnesota:

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

Back to temperatures, Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to be around 70 on Monday, followed by highs in the lower 70s Tuesday through Friday.

Temps may be a bit cooler than normal next weekend into the following week. Warmer temps are possible in the second half of June. The NWS Climate Prediction Center shows a slight tendency for above-normal temps in the southeastern half of Minnesota and much of Wisconsin from June 18 through July 1:

The average Twin Cities temperature in May (that’s the average of all the daily high temps and low temps) was 1.5 degrees warmer than normal. May was the first warmer than normal month in the Twin Cities since December. Last year, we had 10 consecutive warmer than normal months in the Twin Cities (March through December).  

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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Parts of northeastern Minnesota will see frost early Sunday. We have details on that, plus a look at temperature trends and rain chances.

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