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Warming into spring this week; river flooding likely to increase by weekend
Temperatures should warm to about or even above seasonal norms on Tuesday as the milder weather arrives. Spring will really kick into gear and wear down the snow piles as the warming trend continues into the weekend.
Warmer temps and melting snow; how much will the rivers rise this week?
Astronomical spring arrives at 4:58 p.m. CDT on Wednesday. It’ll look and feel more and more like spring this week, as temps rise and our snow cover shrinks. Temperature trends Monday afternoon highs are expected to reach the upper 30s in much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We could touch 40 in the Twin Cities metro…
The weather extremes of St. Patrick’s Day; warmer temps this week, with 50s in sight
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We all know that March can be a fickle month, so it’s not too surprising that there’s been a wide range of St. Patrick’s Day weather over the years. Our warmest St. Patrick’s Day in the Twin Cities was in 2012, when we hit 80 degrees. Our coldest official Twin Cities…
St. Patrick’s Day heat of 2012; temps ramp up this coming week
Our average high temp on March 17 is 42 degrees in the Twin Cities metro area. Can you imagine a St. Patrick’s Day with a high temp of 80 degrees? That’s what happened in the Twin Cities in 2012. The timing was good too, since it occurred on a Saturday. The ice went out on…
No storms in sight; temps ramp up this coming week
Last weekend, we were dealing with a winter storm. The weekend before that it was arctic air that numbed us, with a Sunday low of 13 below zero in the Twin Cities, followed by an afternoon “high” of zero. A blizzard hit much of Minnesota during the final weekend of February. This is from the…
Snow cover shrinks; cool, quiet weekend
Twin Cities metro area highs reach 40 degrees on Monday, followed by lower 40s Tuesday, and mid-40s Wednesday. We could see highs in the upper 40s Thursday and around 50 next Friday.
Blizzard warnings in NW Minnesota; rain, flood watch for Twin Cities
Eastern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities metro area, will have periods of rain Thursday with a few embedded storms possible. Blizzard warnings are out for northwestern Minnesota plus Traverse and Big Stone counties in western Minnesota.