Very warm and breezy Friday with near record-high temperatures Sunday

It’ll be another very warm and windy day Friday. We’ll see temperatures averaging 15-25 degrees above normal through Monday. Northern Minnesota will see some light rain Friday.  

A very warm weekend with showers north 

Highs Friday afternoon will be even warmer than Thirsday’s low 70s we saw across southern Minnesota. Look for afternoon highs in the mid-70s for southern Minnesota with a bit of a temperature contrast setup to the northwest. It will also be windy again with south winds 10-25 mph with higher gusts.

That difference in temperatures will help to create some scattered light rain showers for northern Minnesota. Southern Minnesota will barely see a sprinkle.  

Rainfall looks pretty modest with perhaps one-quarter of an inch in some places in northern Minnesota.

The front will largely stall out across northern Minnesota, keeping southern Minnesota very warm through at least Monday. Saturday will be just a touch cooler with highs still in the low 70s for southeast Minnesota.

The peak of the warmth looks to be Sunday when many places in southern Minnesota could reach a staggering 80 degrees. 

80 degrees is just 3 degrees from the record high for Sunday in the Twin Cities and comes ironically on the four year anniversary of the largest snowfall we’ve seen that early in the season: 7.9 inches on October 20, 2020. On average the last 80 in the Twin Cities is October 2nd (since 2000). A century ago, the average last 80 was in late September. This could be the latest 80 in 35 years if we reach it Sunday afternoon.

Temperatures cool back to normal by midweek next week with the chance of some light rain Tuesday into Wednesday.