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Warm Tuesday; cool front drops temps Wednesday

Northern Minnesota will see scattered showers Tuesday into Tuesday night

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Forecast simulated radar 7 a.m. Tuesday through 7 a.m. Wednesday
College of DuPage weather lab

We’ll have one last warm day across southern Minnesota ahead of a cool front. That front will touch off some showers for mainly northern Minnesota into Tuesday night. Wednesday will be cooler.

Still warm Tuesday ahead of a cool front 

We’re squeezing out one more very warm day ahead of a cool front moving across Minnesota Tuesday. Highs will be well into the 70s across southern Minnesota, but northwestern Minnesota will already be considerably cooler.

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Forecast highs Tuesday
National Weather Service

That front is also touching off some scattered light rain showers for mostly the northern half of the state into Tuesday night.

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Forecast simulated radar 7 a.m. Tuesday through 7 a.m. Wednesday
College of DuPage weather lab

Rainfall amounts look pretty modest, but some lucky spots could see over one-quarter of an inch.

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Forecast rainfall Tuesday into Wednesday
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, via Pivotal Weather

Winds will increase late Tuesday into Tuesday night in the wake of the cold front at 10 to 20 mph from the northwest with higher gusts.

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Forecast winds 10 a.m. Tuesday through 3 a.m. Wednesday
College of DuPage weather lab

It’ll be noticeably chillier Wednesday, but those readings will be right near normal with highs in the 40s north and 50s south.

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Forecast highs Wednesday
National Weather Service

That cool Wednesday will set us up for a cold night Wednesday night. Parts of northeastern and southeastern Minnesota will see frost.

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Forecast lows Wednesday night
National Weather Service

Temps warm back up Thursday briefly ahead of yet another cool front that will drop temps again Friday into Saturday.

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Twin Cities area forecast through Saturday
National Weather Service

Thursday’s cool front has the potential to touch off more widespread rain showers which would be welcome news for parched regions of Minnesota. While rainfall amounts don’t look to be too heavy, it could be the first measurable rainfall for the Twin Cities in a while.

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Forecast simulated radar 7 a.m. Thursday through 1 a.m. Friday
College of DuPage weather lab

After the cooler, but near-normal temperatures Friday and Saturday, we begin to warm back up into early next week. Some models have us in the 70s to even near 80-degrees again by next Tuesday, Oct. 29:

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Forecast highs for Oct. 29
Global Environmental Multiscale Model, via Pivotal Weather