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Bitterly cold Monday and Tuesday with a rapid warmup midweek

Scant chances of any additional snow this week

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Forecast temperature anomalies (departure from normal) Monday afternoon
WeatherBELL Analytics

Below-normal temperatures are gripping the state Monday and Tuesday before things warm up quickly for Wednesday through Friday. Above-freezing highs are possible for western and southern Minnesota. 

Cold start to the week with a quick warmup midweek 

It’s a frigid Monday morning with most of the state below zero, and we won’t warm a whole lot today. A cold weather advisory is posted for the northern half of the state through the morning.

Highs will range from the single digits above zero south to below zero north.

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Forecast highs Monday
National Weather Service

Wind chill values will remain mostly in the teens and 20s below zero all day thanks to a northwest breeze at 10-15 mph. 

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Forecast wind chills 12 p.m. Monday
National Weather Service

Monday night will be bitterly cold. We’ll see lows range from the single digits below zero south to as cold as 20 below zero for places like Hallock and Warroad in the northwest.

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Forecast lows Monday night
National Weather Service

Wind chills early Tuesday will remain at 20 below zero or colder late Monday night into early Tuesday morning.

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Forecast wind chills 6 a.m. Tuesday
National Weather Service

Tuesday will again be cold with sunshine and highs closer to 10 in southern Minnesota, but we will warm rapidly by Wednesday. Highs could be above freezing in western Minnesota with those milder temperatures spreading east Thursday and Friday.

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Forecast highs by Wednesday
National Weather Service

Unfortunately for snow lovers, we have scant chances at any additional snowfall this week.

By the weekend into early next week we have some more, very cold air coming. In fact, it may rival our coldest temperatures of this winter season so far. A piece of some of the coldest air in the northern hemisphere will migrate south.

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Forecast upper-level pattern over the northern hemisphere the next 7 days
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, via Pivotal Weather

Our coldest temperature of winter so far is 8 below zero in the Twin Cities and 23 below zero in International Falls. We could see a couple overnights next week in that range or colder.