Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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If you don't like the weather in Minnesota, just wait 15 minutes?

That tried and true weather wisdom holds true today, and maybe for the next two weeks on a longer time scale. Get ready for just about anything as we turn the page into February. We start with scattered snow showers today that once again slick up some roads around the metro and greater Minnesota.

The La Crosse, Wis., National Weather Service captures the flavor of the going forecast.

The maps tell the story in pictures. A speedy northwest flow with periodic low pressure systems zipping toward the Great Lakes.

Milder Pacific breezes arrive tomorrow. Temperatures push above the thawing point several days into the weekend. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts guidance for the Twin Cities suggests six days in a row at or above the thawing point.

It's still a week away, but the overnight European Centre model runs have come around to the Global Forecast System's notion of significant snow potential next Tuesday.

Let's see where the maps are in a few days.

By late next week, the longer range outlooks favor another subzero shot for Minnesota.

There's about two days of consistency on this now, a growing sign of forecast confidence that we're not done with subzero air just yet. I still don't buy -20 at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, but another shot of -10 looks increasingly likely.

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Get ready for just about anything as we turn the page into February.

Forecast: Snow, thaw, snow, cold, repeat?

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