Cooler but still well above normal this week

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Yesterday’s high temp at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was 11 degrees. Metro area temps are expected to top out in the lower 20s Sunday afternoon. The average Twin Cities high temp is 23 degrees on Jan. 21.

Roughly the southern half of Minnesota will reach 20 degrees or higher Sunday afternoon:

It’ll be a windy day, with gusts to between 30 and 40 mph possible in eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin and gusts of 45 to 55 mph in portions of western Minnesota.

The strong winds will cause blowing snow and reduced visibilities at times in southwestern Minnesota, where a winter weather advisory continues until 3 p.m. Sunday:

The wind chill advisory in southeastern Minnesota expires at 9 a.m. Sunday.

Here are details of the winter weather advisory in southwestern Minnesota:

A wintry mix of light snow, sleet and freezing drizzle is possible in portions of northern Minnesota Sunday night into Monday morning.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 5 p.m. Sunday to noon on Monday:

Precipitation could occur in some areas that look dry in the forecast radar loop, so check forecast updates later today and on Monday.

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

A new Updraft will be posted around 10:40 a.m. today. It will have details of the mild temps that we will see this week.

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’ll have gusty winds today, but afternoon temps will be about ten degrees warmer than they were on Saturday.

A windy Sunday, but temps rebound this afternoon

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