Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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Here’s a quick nowcast for the rest of Election Day in Minnesota until the polls close at 8 pm. 

Scattered rain showers continue to sweep eastward across our state. The overdue rain is welcome, but of course, it arrives on election day. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model shows bands of scattered showers with a possible clap of thunder pushing east through Minnesota into this evening. The forecast model loop above runs between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday. 

For the Twin Cities, the heaviest rain cells Tuesday favor the hours surrounding 6 p.m. Here’s a look at our model-driven 

 for 5:28 p.m. It paints possible thunder cells favoring the south metro area. 

A major fall-winter storm system is still on track for later this week. A couple of models have shifted the heaviest rainfall slightly north of the Twin Cities, but some still project multi-inch rains around the greater Twin Cities.

The signal is still loud for heavy snow and high winds for the Red River Valley and northern Minnesota.

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Paul Huttner

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A foot of snow and blizzard conditions are possible in the Red River Valley later this week.

Election Day showers increase into evening; winter storm watches up north

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