Winter storm warnings in northern Minnesota

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Friday will be mainly dry, cool, cloudy. Temperatures will remain in the 40s with some upper 30s north. More showers develop for mainly southeast Minnesota Friday night into Saturday. Pockets of snow showers are possible as well Saturday. Sunshine returns Sunday.

Many saw rainfall overnight Thursday night. There were even a few thunderstorms that dumped narrow swaths of rainfall amounts over 1 inch. Most places saw much less.

We received one-quarter inch at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, our heaviest rainfall since late August and more rain than we saw in all of October!

We’ll be mainly dry during the day Friday with cloudy skies and much cooler weather. Southeastern Minnesota will still see on-and-off scattered rain showers.

The next round of moisture will come from the south and affect mostly the southeastern parts of Minnesota with the Twin Cities area and northeastern Minnesota on the western edge.

The heaviest totals will be in eastern Iowa into far southeastern Minnesota and Wisconsin.

It’s even possible to see some snow showers on the colder, western edge of the showers Saturday, especially in northeast Minnesota.

Mild next week but also a stormier pattern

Sunshine will pop back out Sunday and Monday with highs back above normal Sunday in the 50s south and 40s north. Monday will be cooler with highs mainly in the 40s statewide. We could see 60s spread into southern Minnesota again by the middle of next week.

Another interesting shift will be an overall stormier pattern next week. There could be a couple of different storm systems affecting Minnesota mid to late next week. 

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting above normal precipitation for a change in their six to 10-day outlook:

The Twin Cities National Weather Service noted that while it’s indeed been a dry summer and fall in the Twin Cities, the overall dry pattern really began back in July of 2020.  

Twenty-three of the past 28 months have been drier than normal. A couple of periods stick out as wet: this spring (March and April) and last August after the June and July drought.

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Friday will be mainly dry, cool, cloudy. Temperatures will remain in the 40s with some upper 30s north. More showers develop for mainly southeast Minnesota Friday night into Saturday. Pockets of snow showers are possible as well Saturday. Sunshine returns Sunday.


Friday will be cooler, cloudy with temperatures holding in the 40s and even upper 30s in northeast Minnesota. Another round of showers will move up from the south Friday night into Saturday affecting mainly southeast Minnesota.

More rain on the way for SE Minnesota; cooler temps prevail

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