Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Tornadoes touched down in parts of western Minnesota late Saturday afternoon/early Saturday evening.

Based on reports that came into the National Weather Service offices, the NWS Storm Prediction Center lists four confirmed tornadoes in Minnesota on Saturday:

Times listed are in Universal time, which is 5 hours ahead of central daylight time. 2242 is 5:42 p.m. Saturday, 2323 is 6:23 p.m. Saturday.

Note that all this activity occurred on Saturday; there isn’t any severe weather this morning in Minnesota.

A dense fog advisory expires at 9 a.m. today in south-central and southeastern Minnesota.

Parts of northeastern Minnesota have a dense fog advisory until 10 a.m. today:

The northern third of Minnesota has areas of showers this morning. Northern Minnesota will have the best chance of showers into Sunday afternoon, with an isolated thunderstorm also possible. Far southern Minnesota could also see some scattered showers this morning and afternoon, with an isolated afternoon thunderstorm possible.

There could be scattered showers and thunderstorms anywhere in Minnesota and western Wisconsin Sunday evening/overnight.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential rain pattern from noon Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday:

NOAA’s High-Resolution Rapid-Refresh model shows the following rain pattern for that same time period:

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

You can also check the following NWS sites for updated weather info: 

Sunday highs reach the 70s across much of central and southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Twin Cities metro area highs will be mainly in the mid 70s. The average Twin Cities high temperature is 66 degrees this time of year.

Northern Minnesota will see 60s and 50s, with a few upper 40s possible near Lake Superior.

A new Updraft will be posted around 10:30 this morning. It’ll include a look at the week ahead.

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

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Ron Trenda

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We have more details on the tornadoes that touched down in western Minnesota Saturday evening. We also take a look at your Sunday rain chances and temperature outlook.

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