Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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Our latest batch of Canadian wildfire smoke is drifting mainly across northern Minnesota Monday. 

Air quality is in the unhealthy (red) range in the north with a few pockets of unhealthy air elsewhere in Minnesota. 

An air quality alert is in effect up north until 6 p.m. Monday. 

Air quality will gradually improve this week across Minnesota. 

A frontal system will bring scattered storms to more of Minnesota Tuesday. NOAA’s FV3 model shows the increased coverage. The best chance for another (fading?) line of storms around the Twin Cities favors Tuesday evening. The forecast model loop below runs between midnight and 10 p.m. Tuesday.

There is a marginal risk for severe storms in southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities Tuesday.

A higher slight risk zone favors Duluth and northeast Minnesota.

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Unhealthy air quality across much of northern Minnesota Monday.

Air quality alert north; storms increase Tuesday

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