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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Ron Trenda

Dry Saturday, then a chance of rain/snow showers Sunday

Warming trend beginning Wednesday

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Our snow cover will continue to shrink this weekend.

Saturday afternoon and evening look dry across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The southern third of Minnesota has the best chance of seeing some rain showers and snow showers on Sunday. That precipitation chance will then linger into Sunday evening. Parts of southern Wisconsin will see some rain Sunday evening into Monday.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 7 a.m. Sunday to 2 a.m. Monday:

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Simulated radar from 7 a.m. Sunday to 2 a.m. Monday
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR News network. 

Some forecast models show a chance of rain showers and snow showers in southern Minnesota on Monday.

The average Twin Cities high temperature is 49 degrees on March 30. Metro area highs are expected to reach the mid 40s this Saturday.

Roughly the northwestern half of Minnesota will see Saturday highs in the 30s, with 40s elsewhere in Minnesota plus western Wisconsin.

Sunday highs will be in the 30s from west-central Minnesota up to northwestern Minnesota and over to northeastern Minnesota, with mainly 40s in the rest of Minnesota plus west-central and northwestern Wisconsin:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Monday highs will be mainly in the 40s, with upper 30s in parts of northeastern Minnesota:

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Monday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to be in the upper 40s on Tuesday, then around 50 degrees Wednesday followed by mid 50s Thursday and upper 50s on Friday. Some forecast models show Twin Cities metro area highs in the 60s next weekend.

Above-normal temps could linger beyond next weekend; into the following week. The NWS Climate Prediction Center shows above-normal temps in Minnesota and Wisconsin from April 6 through April 12:

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Temperature outlook April 6 through April 12
NWS Climate Prediction Center

Weather nuggets

Twin Cities snowfall (measured at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport) is 15.2 inches so far this month. The Twin Cities snowfall total this snow season (which began last autumn) is 29.5 inches. The Twin Cities season snowfall total was 17.8 inches below normal through March 29.

Programming note

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.