Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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The Saturday afternoon high temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 27 degrees. That’s not even close to the average Twin Cities March 18 high temp of 43 degrees.

Far western Minnesota had Saturday afternoon highs in the teens, with mainly 20s elsewhere in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. 

Low temperatures late Saturday night and early Sunday morning will be in the single digits across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. There’ll be some below-zero low temps in parts of northwestern and west-central Minnesota.

Very cold air is sitting over a large portion of the U.S. this weekend. There are freeze warnings posted from north Texas to portions of the Carolinas Saturday night into Sunday morning:

Sunday highs will be in the 30s in most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

There’ll be some 20s in far northwestern Minnesota.

Monday highs will range from 20s in far western Minnesota and northern Minnesota to 40s in southeastern Minnesota:

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the upper 30s on Monday, followed by lower 40s on Tuesday and Wednesday, then around 40 on Thursday and Friday.

Sunday looks dry across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern Sunday from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.:

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

. Wisconsin road conditions can be found 

The official 2022-2023 Twin Cities snow season total (measured at MSP airport) is 81.2 inches.

That puts the current snow season in the eighth-snowiest position in Twin Cities weather records:

Just two-tenths of an inch of additional snow will put this Twin Cities snow season in the seventh-snowiest position.

We may see some rain mixed with snow late Tuesday and also on Wednesday.

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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We’ll have very cold temperatures Sunday morning, then temps recover nicely in the afternoon. Even milder temps will arrive this coming week. We’re very close to becoming the seventh-snowiest snow season in Twin Cities weather records.

30s return Sunday, 40s on Tuesday. Closing in on 7th snowiest snow season

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