Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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We should see increasing peeks of sunshine in central and southern Minnesota Friday while northeastern Minnesota continues to see some snow showers. 

Temperatures remain cold into early next week. By midweek next week, we’ll finally start to see a discernible upward trend in temperatures. 

Temperatures were frigid by April standards across the region early Friday. Our normal lows range from the upper 20s in far northern Minnesota to the upper 30s in the south.

High temperatures Friday afternoon will be closer to our normal lows than highs. The normal high in southern Minnesota is in the upper 50s while way up along the international border it’s around the upper 40s.

The weekend will be ever so slightly warmer but still well below normal in the 40s south and 30s north. 

We’ll see our next disturbance move in late Sunday bringing rain and snow showers that will turn to mainly snow showers overnight Sunday into Monday with possible accumulation.

Northern Minnesota, once again, stands to see the highest likelihood of snowfall that will be measurable.

By midweek next week we’ll finally start to see a discernible upward trend in temperatures. Highs by Wednesday should top out above 50 once again in southern Minnesota.

The real shift comes by the end of next week. The cold upper-level pattern we have now flips to a large ridge of warmth by next weekend.

One of the warmer outlier models — not necessarily a forecast — pushes in our first 80s in the last week of April. Certainly 70s look likely, at least.

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We should see increasing peeks of sunshine in central and southern Minnesota Friday while northeastern Minnesota continues to see some snow showers. Temperatures remain cold into early next week.

Our storm system finally starts to pull away Friday but it will still be very chilly and windy. Northeast Minnesota will see still see some lingering snow showers but the rest of us will be drier.

Cold, breezy Friday; lingering snow showers

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