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

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It’s a soggy Tuesday for much of Minnesota.

The first significant rainfall in more than three weeks is brining light to moderate showers across most of our state this Tuesday. The last significant rainfall for the Twin Cities area happened on September 21. MSP Airport recorded 0.93 inches of rainfall that day.

Tuesday’s weather system will be lighter than that in most areas. Forecast models show the main wave of rain pushing through Minnesota Tuesday evening and ending gradually from west to east overnight into early Wednesday. Here’s NOAA’s FV3 model between 4 p.m. Tuesday and 1 a.m. Wednesday.

A few more scattered quickly passing rain showers are likely early Thursday morning and again on Friday. But overall precipitation looks light. Little rain will fall in northern Minnesota with between 0.25 inches and 0.50 inches likely in the south.

We’ve been enjoying a second September across Minnesota so far this month. Temperatures through Monday are running about 9 degrees warmer than normal this month in the Twin Cities. All of Minnesota is running significantly warmer than normal so far this month.

Our latest cooling trend continue Wednesday with highs in the 50s in most areas.

But milder air pushes in one more time Thursday into Friday. Highs will reach the 70s in most of central and southern Minnesota.

Another cool front arrive Friday. We may hit the 70s once again Friday, but cooler air in the 60s will pour south by Friday evening. Right now, those high school and Gopher football games Friday night feature a chance of rain showers and temperatures cooling through the 60s.

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Paul Huttner

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