Best shower chance in southern Minnesota Sunday; near-normal temps
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Weather shouldn’t interfere with too many travel plans this Easter Sunday.
Northeastern Minnesota could see a passing morning flurry. Southwestern Minnesota and parts of west-central Minnesota could see a morning snow shower or rain shower.
The chance of a rain/snow mix and then rain spreads eastward across far southern Minnesota Sunday afternoon. Areas from west-central Minnesota eastward through the Twin Cities and west-central Wisconsin could see a passing rain shower later Sunday afternoon and also Sunday evening.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 10 a.m. Sunday to 2 a.m. Monday:
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A rain/snow mix is possible later Sunday night in southern Minnesota.
You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the MPR News network.
Sunday highs
Sunday high temps will be mainly in the 40s, with some 30s in far northern Minnesota:
The average Twin Cities high temp is 49 degrees on March 31, so today’s forecast highs aren’t too far from normal.
Easter snowstorm in 2020
Easter was on April 12 in 2020, and it featured a lot of snow in southern Minnesota and the Twin Cities metro area. Here’s an excerpt from the Minnesota State Climatology Office’s post regarding that Easter snowstorm:
Snowfall totals of 4-8 inches were common roughly south and east of a line from Marshall to the northern Twin Cities. Olmsted and Wabasha Counties saw the highest totals, with many reports of 7-9 inches, and a 10 inches reported by the National Weather Service cooperative observer at Elgin. Other official snowfall totals included 7.8 inches at Wabasha, 7.5 inches at Rochester, 6.6 inches at the Twin Cities International Airport, 6.4 inches in New Ulm, and 4 inches at Marshall.
I’m thinking that some people were late for church services and family gatherings that day.
Update
A new Updraft will be posted around 10:40 a.m. today. It’ll include a look at the week ahead.
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