Wintry mix Thursday night, another storm Friday

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Air quality will be better Wednesday but skies will remain hazy. Northern Minnesota will be much cooler with more clouds and a few showers. June temperatures are back for the Memorial Day weekend.

Hazy skies, big temperature divide Wednesday

The skies are still hazy Wednesday as wildfire smoke lingers aloft.

Air quality near the surface will be better Wednesday but will still be less than ideal in some areas. Southern and northern Minnesota will see moderate air quality conditions.

A cool front is dividing the temperatures across the state from northeast to southwest. Northern Minnesota will see more clouds and some scattered showers as well.

Minnesota will see a high temperature spread of more than 30 degree due to this front.

Wednesday night into early Thursday will bring chilly temperatures to northeastern Minnesota with some places reaching frosty readings.

Warm, dry for most into the holiday weekend

Temperatures climb back to well above normal readings Thursday into the weekend and next week as our upper-level ridge remains in place.

That upper-level ridge will keep most precipitation to the west with a few showers breaking through into far western and northwestern Minnesota by Sunday or Monday.

Most models hint at us reaching 90 degrees in portions of southern and western Minnesota by the middle of next week as that upper-level ridge persists.

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Air quality will be better Wednesday but skies will remain hazy. Northern Minnesota will be much cooler with more clouds and a few showers. June temperatures are back for the weekend.

We’ll be considerably cooler for most of Wednesday with highs ranging from the low 80s still only in southwest Minnesota with temps in the 70s east, 60s north and just 50s along the North Shore. There’ll be some showers in north-central Minnesota.

Cooler north with some showers; holiday weekend looks warm, mostly dry

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