Unsettled Wednesday, then cooler before heating up next week

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Northwesterly winds will continue to spread very cold air across the upper Midwest Thursday afternoon and Thursday night. The cold temps will linger through Friday and Friday night, but temperatures make a huge rebound Saturday afternoon. Sunday highs will be very mild.

Wind chill advisories overnight into Friday 

Many areas will see falling temps Thursday afternoon. Lows by Friday morning will be in the 20s below zero to lower 30s below zero in northern Minnesota:

Southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin will see lows in the teens below zero.

Wind chill advisories are already in effect for northern Minnesota Thursday afternoon. A combination of wind chill advisories and warnings have been issued for Thursday evening into Friday morning:

Here are details of the wind chill advisory that includes the Twin Cities metro area and much of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin Thursday evening into Friday morning:

Here are details of the wind chill warning in northeastern Minnesota:

Here are details of the wind chill advisory that continues Thursday afternoon through Friday morning in northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota:

Friday afternoon high temps will be in the single digits above zero in most areas:

Our average Twin Cities high temp is 24 degrees this time of year, so single digit highs are extraordinarily cold.

Low temperatures late Friday night/early Saturday will be in the single digits below zero in northern and central Minnesota and slightly above zero to the south:

Saturday afternoon highs range from mid 30s in southwestern Minnesota to upper teens in the far northeast:

It’ll be nice to hit 30 in the Twin Cities Saturday afternoon.

Sunday highs will be in the 20s in northern and central Minnesota, with 30s in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota:

Parts of far northern Minnesota could see a passing light snow shower early Saturday and also late Saturday and on Sunday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from noon Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday:

You can find updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News 

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Ron Trenda

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Arctic cold will be with us Thursday night and Friday, then temperatures rebound nicely by Saturday afternoon. We have the weekend forecast details.

Weekend weather: Saturday afternoon warmup lingers through Sunday

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