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Temperatures have soared under sunshine and a mild Pacific air mass on this Wednesday afternoon. Streets are melty, and the air is pleasantly mild. Temperatures hit 50 degrees in southwest Minnesota Wednesday afternoon.

Minnesota is riding the northern edge of an unusually mild January air mass covering most of the central U.S. 

January thaws occur in about 82 percent of years in the Twin Cities dating back to 1873. 2024 produced the longest January Thaw on record that lasted well into February at 24 days!

It will be a few degrees cooler Thursday but still much milder than our normal high of 24 degrees in the Twin Cities for January 8. 

A sloppy rain and snow system will clip southeast Minnesota late Thursday through Thursday night. The Twin Cities looks to ride the northern edge of the system. We could see rain mix with some wet snowflakes especially in the southern Twin Cities through southern Minnesota. 

NOAA’s latest 18Z HRRR model keeps most of the precipitation south of the Twin Cities with rain and some sloppy snowflakes Thursday evening.

Snowfall accumulations look light with a sloppy inch or so possible across parts of southern Minnesota into Wisconsin.

Temperatures will cool into the 20s next weekend with light snow chances (probably an inch or so) favoring Saturday.

Right now I don’t see any big snow events on the maps for the next week or so.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

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Temperatures hit 50 degrees Wednesday afternoon in southwest Minnesota. Thursday brings a rain to snow mix in the south.

An unseasonably mild January day at the Weather Lab in the Twin Cities

Thaw today! Rain snow mix south late Thursday

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