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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Ron Trenda

Normal temperatures; chance of rain-snow

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The winter storm warning expired at 7 a.m. for northeastern Minnesota. Some roads will remain slippery in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin today, so allow extra travel time in those areas.

Northern Minnesota saw some impressive snow amounts from the storm:

  • 12.3 inches 21 miles north of Grand Marais

  • 12.0 inches in Cook

  • 11.5 inches 2.5 miles north of Silver Bay

  • 11.0 inches in Finland

  • 9.7 inches at Two Harbors

  • 8.7 inches at Duluth airport

  • 7.2 inches in International Falls

Some occasional rain/snow showers are possible today and tonight as a trough of low pressure moves through:

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Highs will be close to normal today and tomorrow, which means lower 40s in the metro:

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St. Patrick's Day extremes

March 17 can bring us just about any kind of weather in the Twin Cities.

Here are the extremes:

  • 80 (2012) warmest high temp, also set the record for earliest 80 degree reading in any year

  • -8 (1941) coldest low temp

  • 11.2 inches (1965) Most new snow ever recorded on St. Patrick's Day.

Occasional rain/snow showers are possible in the Twin Cities today, with no snow accumulation expected.

Ice out Lake Minnetonka

The Hennepin County Sheriff"s office tweeted the following just after midnight:

The earliest ice out date ever observed for Lake Minnetonka was March 11, 1878.

Ice out was declared yesterday at White Bear Lake, their earliest ice out in records dating back to 1928.

Normal temps through weekend

Highs this weekend will be much cooler than last weekend, but very close to normal:

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

We could see some rain-snow showers at times on Saturday, but Sunday looks dry. Lows the next few mornings will be in the 20s.

Temps finally reach 50 next Tuesday.

I hope you enjoy your St. Patrick's Day!