Wintry mix Thursday night, another storm Friday

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Rainfall amounts were hit and miss Sunday night and it left a layer of dust in the Twin Cities. A cold front is dropping temperatures from west to east Monday. We’ll have a few showers and a blustery west wind at 10-25 mph.

Monday night temperatures will drop into the 30s to near 40. Temperatures the remainder of the week will be near normal.

Dust, spotty rainfall overnight Sunday night

Consider yourself lucky if you have anything other than dust in your rain gauge. There were a few narrow swaths of heavier rainfall totals, but most of southern Minnesota was largely missed.

Twin Cities metro totals ranged from only a trace at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to 4 one-hundredths (.04) of an inch South St. Paul. The showers and thunderstorms rained down dust that blew up all the way from Nebraska Sunday.

We could still see some scattered light rain showers Monday afternoon behind the cold front. Rainfall amounts will generally be light however, under one-tenth of an inch for most.

Temperatures will dip to more seasonable readings Monday night in the 30s to around 40 in the Twin Cities.

High temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday will also be near normal, mainly in the 50s with some 40s in northern Minnesota.

By the end of the week into early next week, we’re looking at temperatures once again climbing above normal with low 60s in southern Minnesota to end the month of October.

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Sven Sundgaard

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Rainfall amounts were hit and miss Sunday night. A Monday cold front is dropping temperatures. Expect a few showers and a blustery west wind. Monday night temps will drop into the 30s to near 40. Temperatures the remainder of the week will be near normal.

A warm morning Monday with temperatures dropping from the 60s into the 50s. It will be mainly cloudy with isolated shower or a thunderstorm. Monday night will be colder with lows in the 30s to near 40. Sunshine returns Tuesday with seasonable temperatures in the 50s south, 40s north.

Falling temperatures Monday; seasonable week ahead

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather

NOAA via pivotal weather

A gif of a dust cloud from satellite images 

Rainfall for some, dust for others; cooler air returns

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