Cooler but still well above normal this week

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Congratulations, Minnesota. You just lived through yet another truly rare extreme weather event.

Our massive three-day storm produced snowfall of 6 inches or more across more than 60 percent of Minnesota. That’s a big system.

But the truly rare event is that this storm dropped both a foot of snow and an inch of rain for areas around the Twin Cities. That hasn’t happened in at least 40 years, according to the Minnesota State Climatology Office. 

Typically heavy Minnesota precipitation events like this occur and mostly rain or snow. Just how rare is it to get both a foot of snow and an inch of rain in the same storm? 

That’s hard to tease out of historical weather data. But it likely has only happened twice on record. Both the 

 produced that kind of heavy rain and snow in the same storm. 

 from the Minnesota State Climatology Office. 

A winter weather advisory is up for most of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin into Saturday morning. 

Expect some light ice and snow overnight into Saturday morning. 

Highs this weekend will run in the 30s north to 40s south.

Much warmer air will blow into Minnesota late next week. Temperatures in the 60s look likely by next Friday. And some models are cranking out the year’s first 70-degree temperatures next weekend.

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Paul Huttner

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The storm dropped both a foot of snow and an inch of rain for areas around the Twin Cities. That hasn’t happened in at least 40 years, according to the Minnesota State Climatology Office. 

Black swan storm this week. A shot at 70 degrees late next week?

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