Wintry mix Thursday night, another storm Friday

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Thursday will be warmer with sun most of the day. Highs will range from the low 30s to the teens north. Snow develops Thursday night into Friday for southern Minnesota. A bigger storm is possible next week.

Northern Minnesota saw some frigid low temperatures this week. There was one more of those overnight Wednesday night before temperatures started to go up by early Thursday morning. This time southern Minnesota saw some subzero readings,

Northern Minnesota saw temperatures dip into the teens below zero to near 20 below zero at Crane Lake.

Thursday will be warmer by afternoon with highs in the low 30s in southeastern Minnesota and teens and 20s north.

Snow along I-90 corridor Thursday into Friday

A winter weather advisory goes into effect in southern Minnesota at 6 p.m. Thursday through the early morning Friday in southwest Minnesota and through mid afternoon Friday in southeast Minnesota where the snow will end later.

The precipitation will start as snow and even some freezing light rain in southwestern Minnesota Thursday evening and spread north and east into the night through Friday morning. The Twin Cities will be on the northern edge of this precipitation.

Parts of southern Minnesota along Interstate 90 could see snowfall of up to 5 to 6 inches. In the Twin Cities most totals will be under 1 inch, though some southern suburbs could see around an inch.

After the snow, it’ll be a mild weekend with highs in the 30s, nearly statewide. That mild air sticks around into next week which will play into our next, larger storm system.

A large storm system develops early next week and will become what we call a cut-off upper-level low, which means it’s cut off from the main flow of the atmosphere and is stuck between the jet streams.

It’s still early to get into details, but at this point the areas most favored for heavy snow is western and northern Minnesota back into the Dakotas. There will be a lot of warm air drawn into this system which means we will likely be talking all forms of precipitation for Minnesota.

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Thursday will be warmer with sun most of the day. Highs will range from the low 30s to the teens north. Snow develops Thursday night into Friday for southern Minnesota. A bigger storm is possible next week.


I-90 snow Thursday night; mild weekend; larger storm next week

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