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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Ron Trenda

Warming trend into the weekend

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Areas of fog are being reported this morning, with visibilities below 1/4 mile in some spots over west-central and southwestern Minnesota.

Northeastern Minnesota also has some fog this morning, and could see freezing drizzle and flurries at times:

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In the Twin Cities, we will have clouds and a few areas of fog this morning, with some breaks in the cloud cover this afternoon. Highs will be in the lower 50s, well above our average high of 38 degrees.

60s return!

An approaching low pressure system will bring us southerly breezes Friday and Saturday:

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With plenty of sun, temps will warm into the 60s over much of Minnesota on Friday:

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Supervisors will be very suspicious of anyone who calls in sick tomorrow!

Highs will also be very warm on Saturday:

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 Far southern Minnesota could see some showers Saturday afternoon, and we will have a chance of showers Saturday evening in the Twin Cities.

Looking ahead, temperatures remain well above normal Sunday through Tuesday, With showers possible Sunday and Tuesday:

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Global Forecast System data, via Weatherspark

Wednesday will be cooler, with showers still possible.

The European forecast model gives us highs in the 40s on Wednesday, which would make it possible for a few flakes to mix with our rain. The best chance of snow on Wednesday will be over northern Minnesota.

March 2012 was warmer

 This has been a very warm March.  So far this month, our temperature at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is running 8.8 degrees above normal. That is very impressive. The snow has melted, flip-flops have been spotted and some golf courses have already opened.

Believe it or not, our March was much wamer in 2012. The average temperature for the month was 15.5 degrees above normal in the Twin Cities. We set a record high temp on March 10, which started a stretch during which we had record highs on 8 of 10 days!

We had our earliest 80 in Twin Cities history in 2012, on St. Patrick's Day.