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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Paul Huttner

This is likely the coldest 24 hours of this winter in Minnesota

Temperatures hit minus 42 up north, teens below zero in the Twin Cities

Low temperatures
Low temperatures Monday morning
Duluth National Weather Service office

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Well, this is probably it Minnesota.

This is likely the coldest 24 hours of winter. Our current subzero air mass early this week is very likely the coldest air we’ll feel this winter. Wind chill readings are still in the 40s below zero across northern Minnesota Monday afternoon.

Wind chill temperatures Monday afternoon
Wind chill temperatures Monday afternoon.
Oklahoma Mesonet

The forecast maps through the end of January suggest we may dip below zero briefly one more time, but nothing this cold is in the forecast. And rapidly increasing daylight in February makes it much harder to see teens below zero in the south.

So Monday’s low temperatures of minus 14 degrees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, our subzero high temperature, and Tuesday's likely low around 17 below zero, will very likely be the coldest 24-hour run of the winter.

Temperatures Monday afternoon
Temperatures Monday afternoon
Oklahoma Mesonet

Northern Minnesota saw temperatures in the 30s below zero and a few 40s below zero Monday morning.

Here are some select minimum temperatures from across Minnesota on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

  • minus 42 degrees Seagull Lake, Lake Kabetogema

  • minus 40 degrees Ash Lake

  • minus 39 degrees Tower, Indus

  • minus 38 degrees Embarrass, Winton

  • minus 37 degrees Ely

  • minus 35 degrees Eveleth

  • minus 34 degrees International Falls

  • minus 33 Grand Marais Airport

  • minus 31 degrees Isabella

  • minus 30 degrees Moose lake

  • minus 24 degrees Brainerd, Duluth

  • minus 15 degrees Lake Elmo, Buffalo

  • minus 14 degrees MSP Airport, Rochester

  • minus 12 degrees Granite Falls

  • minus 11 degrees Albert Lea

Coldest morning Tuesday

High temperatures are still below zero Monday afternoon. That sets Minnesota up for the coldest night of this cold snap Tuesday morning. The Twin Cities will bottom out around minus 17 to minus 18 degrees around sunrise Tuesday.

Forecast low temperatures Tuesday morning
Forecast low temperatures Tuesday morning
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

If we hit 17 degrees below zero at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, it will be the coldest temperature there in three years. The last time we were as cold was Jan. 7, 2022, at minus 17 degrees. The last time we hit minus 18 degrees in the Twin Cities was on Valentine’s Day of 2021.

Temperatures will recover above zero across most of Minnesota Tuesday afternoon.

Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
Forecast high temperatures Tuesday
NOAA

Highs will return to the 20s by Wednesday.

Stay warm Minnesota!