Cooler but still well above normal this week

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We’re living through a respectably cold Minnesota winter. Overall temperatures are just 1 to 2 degrees warmer than normal. Compare that to the 

 last winter and we’re about 10 degrees colder on average this winter. 

Tuesday brings the 17th day of subzero temperatures to the Twin Cities. We bottomed out at minus 9 degrees Tuesday morning. So we’re tracking about on pace to reach our annual average of 22 subzero days in the Twin Cities. 

Wednesday morning brings another subzero chill to Minnesota. You can see on the map at the top of this post that we’ll see single-digit subzero temperatures in the south with minus 20s in the north. 

Highs temperatures Wednesday will recover into the teens in the south. 

Thursday brings another subzero start with single-digit afternoon highs.

A significant storm rolling through Iowa and southern Wisconsin will graze southern Minnesota Wednesday. A few flakes may reach the Twin Cities Wednesday, but the bulk of accumulating snow will fall across southeastern Minnesota. 

On Friday, a low-pressure wave passing to our south should generate light snow across much of Minnesota. 

Very early indications favor 1 to as much as 4 inches of snow across much of central and southern Minnesota. Some solutions suggest a potential band of up to 6 inches north of the Twin Cities once again. 

As always the forecast models will wrestle with the system over the next couple of days. We’ll likely see snowfall total outputs change so stay tuned as we monitor the model perturbations through Friday until the snow flies. 

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Paul Huttner

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We’re tracking close to normal for the number of subzero days in Minnesota this winter. 

Subzero mornings continue. Snow chance Friday?

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