Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Thursday will see afternoon high temperatures that will be a few degrees below normal. We should see some sunshine through occasional clouds Thursday into Saturday. Rain and snow returns to Minnesota Sunday and Monday.

We’ll see our coolest high temperatures of the week for many ranging from around freezing in southeastern Minnesota to the upper teens in northwestern Minnesota.

We should see some sunshine Thursday, although it will not be completely clear. Mid and high level clouds will be moving through at times.

We should see a bit more sunshine Friday and temperatures will jump back to milder readings with widespread 30s Friday afternoon and into the weekend.

We’ll also remain remarkably quiet and dry considering the pattern lately. Little or no precipitation will fall across Minnesota through early Sunday.

The dry stretch comes to an end Sunday afternoon as the next storm system brings rain and snow to the region. That moisture will linger into Monday.

It’s still early to pinpoint exactly where slushy snowfall accumulation will be heaviest but somewhere in Minnesota looks likely to see at least several inches. 

The models differ on where this area sets up as can be seen in these four different computer model forecast snowfall scenarios:

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Sven Sundgaard

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Thursday will see afternoon high temperatures that will be a few degrees below normal. We should see some sunshine through occasional clouds Thursday into Saturday. Rain and snow returns to Minnesota Sunday and Monday.


3 days of dry weather; rain, snow return Sunday

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