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Sat. night and Sunday morning flake chances; gusty winds Sunday

More significant snow in Kansas and Missouri

I saw a few light snow showers in St. Paul Saturday afternoon. It felt wintry, with a Twin Cities high temp of 32 degrees. That was 5 degrees shy of the average Nov. 25 high in the Twin Cities. We probably won’t see above-normal temps until midweek.

Sunday highs will be in the 20s across roughly the northern third of Minnesota, with lower 30s elsewhere in Minnesota plus much of western Wisconsin:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

It’ll probably feel cooler than the air temperature in much of Minnesota Sunday afternoon, due to wind gusts of 25 to 32 mph:

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Sunday 3 p.m. forecast wind gusts
National Weather Service

Back to temperatures, Monday highs will be in the teens in far northern Minnesota, with 20s elsewhere:

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Monday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to be around 30 degrees on Tuesday, followed by upper 30s Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Weekend snow update

A winter storm continues to drop heavy snow on parts of Kansas Saturday evening. A winter storm warning for 4 to 7 inches of snow continues until 3 a.m. Sunday from central Kansas into northeastern Kansas:

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Advisories and warnings Saturday evening into Sunday morning
National Weather Service

A winter weather advisory for 3 to 4 inches of snow continues Saturday night in portions of northern Missouri. Roughly the southeastern half of Iowa is in a winter weather advisory Saturday night for 2 to 3 inches of snow. Portions of northern Illinois have a winter weather advisory for 2 to 4 inches of snow late Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Wind advisories cover much of North Dakota and South Dakota late Saturday night through Sunday morning.

Periods of light snow or flurries are expected across much of central and southern Minnesota Saturday evening and overnight Saturday night. Central and southern Wisconsin will see periods of light snow Saturday night into Sunday, with 1 to 2 inches of snow possible in some locations:

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Saturday night/Sunday snow
National Weather Service

A low pressure system moves across south-central Canada late Saturday night into Sunday, spinning some light snow over much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 4 a.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Sunday:

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Simulated radar from 4 a.m. Sunday to 6 p.m. Sunday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

Some spots in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin could see an inch or more of snow Sunday into Sunday night:

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Forecast snow totals Saturday night into Monday morning
National Weather Service

Heavier lake-enhanced snow totals are expected Sunday and Sunday night/early Monday in Hurley, Wisconsin and in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

A coating to a half inch of snow is possible in the Twin Cities metro area and southeastern Minnesota Sunday morning.

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

Updated forecast info will be posted by the NWS offices in the Twin CitiesDuluth and La Crosse.


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