Cooler but still well above normal this week

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There aren’t any really cold temps in our forecast the next few days.

The average Twin Cities high temperature is 34 degrees this time of year. Metro area highs will be in the upper 30s to around 40 Saturday afternoon.

Most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin will have Saturday highs in the 30s, with some lower 40s in parts of southwestern and south-central Minnesota.

Similar high temps are on tap for Sunday:

Monday highs reach the 40s in portions of southern and west-central Minnesota:

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to be around 40 degrees Monday and Tuesday, followed by lower 40s Wednesday, mid 40s Thursday and lower 40s on Friday.

A stray snow flurry is possible in northern Minnesota Saturday afternoon and evening.

Some locations in the upper Midwest will see snow at times Saturday evening into Sunday, due to an upper level disturbance which will combine with a low pressure system tracking to our southeast.

Parts of eastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois and portions of southern and central Wisconsin could see an inch or two of snow from Saturday evening into Sunday morning. Lighter snow accumulations, of generally less than one inch, are possible Saturday night into early Sunday morning in southeastern Minnesota. A few occasional flurries are possible late Saturday night into Sunday morning in the Twin Cities metro area. Portions of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin could see periods of light snow or flurries Saturday night into Sunday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 5 p.m. Saturday to 5 p.m. Sunday:

A clipper system will spread some snow across much of northern and central Minnesota and into Wisconsin Monday and Monday evening. NOAA’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 6 a.m. Monday to 9 p.m. Monday:

Some light snow showers are possible in the Twin Cities metro area late Monday afternoon into Monday evening.

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

Just 0.04 (four-hundredths of an inch) of precipitation was recorded during November at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

November 2023 was the second-driest November in Twin Cities precipitation records, which go back to 1871:

Precipitation includes rainfall plus the water content of the November snowfall.

Just one-half inch of snow was reported at MSP airport in November 2023. That places November 2023 in a tie for fourteenth-least-snowy November in Twin Cities snowfall records, which date back to 1884:

Notice that there were four years with just a trace of snow during November!

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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Saturday will be the nicer day of the weekend in much of Minnesota. Some locations will see  flakes at times late Saturday night into Sunday. Temperatures run a bit above normal this coming week.

Nice weather Saturday; flake chance in some areas Sunday and Monday

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