Significant moisture moves in; snow for some Friday night

Periods of rain Friday will transition to snow in northern and central Minnesota Friday night into early Saturday.

Except for Monday, temperatures will remain above normal into next week.

System brings rain, snow

It will be a wet Friday for much of north-central Minnesota, where periods of rain will persist.

Rain showers will develop for southern Minnesota as well by Friday evening and overnight. The rain will turn to snow in central and northern Minnesota overnight Friday night into early Saturday. 

The most likely areas to receive snow will be an area from about Fergus Falls to Brainerd and Duluth.

While it looks like most areas will see modest, slushy accumulations, there will be a lot of variability because of the mild temperatures and warm, wet ground.

It’s worth posting the high-end potential snowfall amounts, which are the 90th percentile forecast possibilities:

Most impressive with this system will be the amount of water. Liquid equivalent precipitation will range from one-half inch to 1 inch for some areas of central Minnesota into northwestern Wisconsin.

High temperatures will remain mostly in the 30s both Saturday and Sunday, which continue to be above normal. Clouds will linger into Saturday. We should see a bit more sunshine Sunday. 

No end in sight to above normal temperatures 

Sunday night into Monday will be briefly colder. In fact, overnight low temperatures Sunday night will be in the single digits in northern Minnesota. 

Beyond that, temperatures remain well above normal overall as far as we can reasonably see in the forecast.

Below are forecast high and low temperatures for the Twin Cities from a sort of weighted average of computer models along with the normal highs and lows.