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Another chilly day and frosty night before a warming trend

70s return to southern Minnesota Thursday and Friday

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Forecast surface weather conditions Tuesday
National Weather Service

It’s a cold start, but skies will be brighter Tuesday thanks to high pressure. Temperatures begin their climb upward Wednesday after another frosty night.

One more chilly day and night before warmer air returns 

We’ll have brighter skies Tuesday as cool high pressure parks itself over Minnesota. It will still be chilly with highs in the 50s south to upper 40s north.

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Forecast highs Tuesday
National Weather Service

It’ll be another frosty or freezing overnight across the state with lows falling into the 20s and 30s once again, including most Twin Cities suburbs. 

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Forecast lows Tuesday night
National Weather Service

Wednesday will begin the upward trend with temperatures. Highs will be in the low 60s south to 50s northeast with more sunshine.

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Forecast highs Wednesday
National Weather Service

Temperatures will be warming up back well above normal Thursday into the weekend. Friday looks to be the warmest day with widespread mid-70s for southern Minnesota.

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Forecast highs Friday
National Weather Service

Those readings are 15 to 20 degrees above normal Friday:

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Forecast temperature anomalies (departure from normal) Friday
WeatherBELL Analytics

We also have the chance for a few light rain showers in western Minnesota Friday and for the rest of the state Friday night into Saturday. Rainfall looks insignificant at this point, however. 

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Forecast precipitation 1 p.m. Thursday through 1 p.m. Saturday
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, via Pivotal Weather

There will be patchy areas of a trace to perhaps one-tenth or two-tenths of an inch of rainfall Friday into Saturday for mainly northern and northwestern Minnesota.

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Forecast rainfall through the weekend
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather