Heavy snow and difficult travel expected again, heaviest snow in southern Minnesota

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It’s a showery Tuesday afternoon across much of southern Minnesota.

A weak front is sparking scattered showers and a few thunderstorms across the south. NOAA’s HRRR model shows the trend of spotty showers and thundershowers through Tuesday evening. The forecast model loop below runs between 2 p.m. Tuesday and midnight Wednesday.

Wednesday and the rest of the week bring dry skies with more sunshine and warmer temperatures. Highs Wednesday will reach the 70s across most of Minnesota with 60s in the east. 

By Friday, temperatures will ramp up back to mid-summer levels. Highs will run well into the 80s in the south and west.

Our warming trend continues through the weekend into next week. NOAA’s temperatures outlooks strongly favor warmer than normal temperatures through most of next week.

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Paul Huttner

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Highs will reach the 80s once again this week across most of central and southern Minnesota.

Showery Tuesday then more summer than September this week

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