Cooler but still well above normal this week

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The warm weather hits of the un-winter of 2023-24 just keep on comin’.

My colleague Mark Seeley passes along that we’ve just lived through the warmest December and January on record in Minnesota.

Seeley on Morning Edition Friday mornings

So this meteorological winter is off to a record-warm start. February will decide if we live through the warmest winter ever recorded. And temperatures the first 10 days of February will run about 25 degrees warmer than normal.

Cooler weather looks likely by around Feb. 10-11, but temperatures may still run a few degrees above normal. The last half of February will tell the tale of the possible record-warm winter of 2023-24. 

You have to wonder if the (historically inaccurate) groundhog matters even less this winter. Looking back at temperatures this winter so far, we’ve only had 16 straight days below freezing between Jan. 6 and 21. That’s about two weeks of true winter.

Will we have six weeks of winter in total this year?

Skies look mostly sunny to partly cloudy through this weekend across most of Minnesota.

Friday brings a cooler day, but temperatures will still run about 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal. 

The average high and low temperatures this weekend for the Twin Cities are 25 and 9 degrees. But we’ll be closer to 50 degrees once again across southern Minnesota by Saturday.

And next week looks more like April once again. Highs in the 40s south will push into the 50s once again next week.

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