Winter on hold: Highs near 50 again next week?
Unseasonably mild weather pattern lasts into next week.
Winter weather is missing on the weather maps over Minnesota. Temperatures pushed into the 40s again Thursday across southern Minnesota. I saw 50 at Madison in southwest Minnesota Thursday afternoon.
Weekend speed bump
A weak cool front slides south across Minnesota Friday. But even that front will just drop temperatures a few degrees closer to average through this weekend. And another warm front slides in Sunday.
Highs through this weekend will run in the 30s south with 20s up north.
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The average high and low for the Twin Cities this weekend are 30 and 16 degrees.
Even milder next week?
The overall weather pattern continues to favor above-average temperatures for most of next week. In fact, next week could be even warmer than this week.
The upper air forecast favors another mild Pacific flow as the jet stream lifts north into Canada once again.
Highs will push well into the 40s again across southern Minnesota next week. A few forecast models crank out highs around 50 degrees once again for the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota by next Wednesday.
NOAA’s 6 to 10-day temperature outlook keeps the mild weather bullseye right across the Upper Midwest next week.
Somewhat colder air much closer to average may arrive after next week.
Stay tuned.