Speed bump: Breezy and colder Friday before 40s return this weekend
Another shot of mild air this weekend; 60 degrees possible by Monday
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Call it a temperature speed bump.
A cold front — really more of an average front — blows through Minnesota on Friday. Temperatures will run about 20 degrees cooler than our balmy 52-degree high temperature Thursday. Thursday marks the record 14th day at or above 50 degrees this winter.
Highs will hover in the 20s north and 30s south Friday. (See the map above.)
This weekend we’re already pushing back into the 40s across most of southern and western Minnesota.
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An even warmer wave of air arrives by Monday. Bank thermometers in southern Minnesota will be blinking 60 degrees on Monday and Tuesday afternoon.
Colder air will graze us again starting next Wednesday. There’s a chance for some snow Tuesday night into Wednesday.
But the maps suggest yet another shot of warmer air as we head into March.
The astute weather observer has to wonder if we’ll get some payback for this warmest winter on record with a hefty late-season snowstorm in late March or April.
This is still Minnesota after all.
Stay tuned.