Climbing the temperature ladder again this week
Another Super El Niño-spawned December warm front on the way
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‘Twas the week before Christmas. And not a cold front is stirring for the Upper Midwest as we look ahead to the Christmas holiday weekend.
A rainy, brown-green Christmas in Minnesota? These are not your grandparent’s Minnesota winters anymore.
Our properly brisk Monday gives way to another warm front Tuesday. Southwest winds will blow in milder air once again from the snow-free zone to Minnesota’s south and west.
That means without fresh snow cover most of the sun’s energy will be available to warm up the “low albedo” brown landscape.
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Keep in mind the average high and low in the Twin Cities by Christmas Day are 26 and 12 degrees.
Highs Tuesday will reach 40 degrees once again across southwestern Minnesota.
By this weekend highs will soar through the 40s, with 50s south.
And record highs in the 40s to 50s look likely on Christmas Eve.