Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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Temperatures will be much cooler behind a cold front Wednesday. It will be windy with lingering clouds east but sunshine west. Air quality will be unhealthy at times west.

What a difference a day and a cold front can make. Temperatures will be substantially cooler with highs mostly in the 60s. Parts of northeast Minnesota will be in just the upper 50s and far western Minnesota will see highs in the low 70s.

We’ll have lingering clouds in eastern Minnesota while western Minnesota will see more sunshine. It will also be windy with northwest winds 10-25 mph, gusting to near 30 mph west.

There will even be a few lingering showers especially in northeast Minnesota.

Air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups at times in western Minnesota. An air quality alert has been expanded west through 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Check the latest air quality conditions, alerts and forecasts here:

Current air quality conditions

Air quality forecasts

Thursday will continue with temperatures below normal but by the weekend we’ll be near normal or above with highs well into the 70s Friday and near 80 again in southern Minnesota Saturday.

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Temperatures will be much cooler behind a cold front Wednesday. It will be windy with lingering clouds east but sunshine west. Air quality will be unhealthy at times west.


Cooler, windy Wednesday; air quality alert expanded west

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