Cooler but still well above normal this week

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Pick your weather poison across Minnesota. Our potent inbound spring storm will produce a wide variety of weather in the next 36 hours. 

We’ll see record warmth, potential lightning, thunder, wind and hail, and even a few tornadoes possible in parts of southern Minnesota Friday evening. Then heavy wind-driven snow and winds to 55 mph will cause blizzard conditions in western Minnesota by dawn Saturday. 

Rain will rapidly change to heavy, wet wind-driven snow in western Minnesota between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday morning. Throw in wind gusts to 55 mph in open country and you get an 

 have been issued for as much as a foot of heavy wet snow across much of northwest Minnesota:

A severe weather risk continue for much of southern and eastern Minnesota. 

On the map below, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s FV3 model still shows an arcing line of storms pushing north into southern Minnesota by around 6 p.m. Friday evening. 

Storms may weaken a bit as they approach the Twin Cities and central Minnesota after 8 p.m. through late Friday evening. 

The highest risk for damaging winds and hail and a possible tornado lies across southern Minnesota especially the Interstate 90 corridor. Storms may weaken a bit as they move north into more stable air after dark, but it still could be feisty to potentially severe. 

Temperatures will crash this weekend into the 20s and 30s.

Monday and Tuesday bring milder air back once again.

The forecast models still crank up another heavy snow event next Tuesday night and Wednesday. The latest storm track favors southeastern Minnesota.

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We’ll see record warmth, potential lightning, thunder, wind and hail, and even a few tornadoes possible in parts of southern Minnesota Friday evening. Then heavy wind-driven snow and winds to 55 mph will cause blizzard conditions in western Minnesota by dawn Saturday. 


Severe weather; blizzard warnings in western Minnesota by Saturday morning

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