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Despite the frost that coated much of northwestern, north central, and especially northeastern Minnesota early Wednesday, we got off to the races with warming temperatures. Many didn’t even need a jacket to stay warm through the afternoon; that’s a sign of an incoming warming trend, lasting well into next week.

There will be a few high clouds up in the Iron Range and North Shore for the tail end of Wednesday. We will be comfortable, with a fairly seasonable high in the lower 60s around the Twin Cities, slightly cooler farther to the north.

Speaking of northern Minnesota, some weather tools show fog developing before midnight between Lake of the Woods and Big Stone Lake. That could linger into Thursday morning. Temperature-wise, we won’t be quite as cold in the Twin Cities, likely only down into the low-to-middle 40s. There may be some patches of frost lingering in northeastern Minnesota, but that’s really not unusual, even for the last few days of May.

Some mid-level cloud cover begins to roll into southern Minnesota – from Luverne to Rochester – by late Thursday morning. We’ll drop off many of the early clouds, becoming largely sun-filled by the end of the day. Highs will move into the upper 60s by Thursday’s warmest point, likely around 4:00 p.m.

The high pressure corridor begins to weaken Friday, allowing some rain showers to move in late evening. These start out in southwestern Minnesota, moving up towards St. Paul and Minneapolis after dark.

Much of the rain moves northeast by late morning on Saturday. Temps are still fairly standard across the state, in the middle 60s. There’s a noticeable warmup happening on Sunday. Some spots in the southern counties of Minnesota reach for 80 degrees.

We could even eclipse 80 for Memorial Day itself. Knock on wood but Sunday and Monday are looking really lovely, apart from an isolated shower in the far northwestern edges of the state.

A run at the middle 80s is certainly within reason by the middle of next week, and a couple of towns could race towards an isolated 90 degrees by next Thursday!

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Ben Cathey

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