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Weather shouldn’t interfere with too many travel plans this Easter Sunday.

Northeastern Minnesota could see a passing morning flurry. Southwestern Minnesota and parts of west-central Minnesota could see a morning snow shower or rain shower.

The chance of a rain/snow mix and then rain spreads eastward across far southern Minnesota Sunday afternoon. Areas from west-central Minnesota eastward through the Twin Cities and west-central Wisconsin could see a passing rain shower later Sunday afternoon and also Sunday evening.

 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 10 a.m. Sunday to 2 a.m. Monday:

A rain/snow mix is possible later Sunday night in southern Minnesota.

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

Sunday high temps will be mainly in the 40s, with some 30s in far northern Minnesota:

The average Twin Cities high temp is 49 degrees on March 31, so today’s forecast highs aren’t too far from normal.

Easter was on April 12 in 2020, and it featured a lot of snow in southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities metro area. Here’s an excerpt from the Minnesota State Climatology Office’s post regarding that 

I’m thinking that some people were late for church services and family gatherings that day.

A new Updraft will be posted around 10:40 a.m. today. It’ll include a look at the week ahead.

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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Many of us will have dry weather today, with shower chances favoring far southern Minnesota. Temps will be fairly normal for the last day of March.

Best shower chance in southern Minnesota Sunday; near-normal temps

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