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The region has been blanketed by cold weather advisories and extreme cold warnings around the clock since Saturday evening. The warnings finally expire at 10 am for many and at noon in northern Minnesota.

Before the warming trend begins, Tuesday starts with the potential for frostbite in as little as 10 minutes on exposed skin. 

Most communities end their subzero streak Tuesday with the exception being in northeastern Minnesota near Virginia and Ely. Temperatures rise looking south and west with a high near 9 in the Twin Cities and 17 in Marshall.

Northern communities will dip into the minus single digits Tuesday night with lows more comfortably in the single digits for central and southern Minnesota.

Wednesday is when a warm front pushes much of the region into the 20s with even the Canadian border reaching upper single digits.

The warm front is followed quickly by a cold front, but it won’t have the same arctic air behind it as we’ve seen lately. 

With that said, northern Minnesota falls back into minus double digits Wednesday night. Temperatures improve looking south with the Twin Cities hovering a degree or two above zero going into Thursday morning.

We’ll remain cooler Thursday with highs in single digits and teens.

Thursday night will once again see most areas below zero, then we settle into a stretch of closer-to-average temperatures Friday through the weekend.

Friday features highs in teens and 20s, and those conditions will become more commonplace moving forward.

The clipper that we can thank for putting an end to this cold snap will bring light snow Tuesday night and Wednesday. The system isn’t working with much moisture, and that is another feature that becomes more common in the current forecast for the rest of January.

This round will be a dusting, if that, staying generally north of Interstate 94 and east of the Interstate 35 corridor in the Twin Cities and south. The potential for around 1 inch of snow stays north of Grand Rapids.

There is no widespread accumulating snow event currently in sight.

Brandon Weatherz

Author

Our extreme cold warning finally ends by Tuesday afternoon as much of Minnesota ends a streak of subzero temperatures. A warm front brings a more comfortable Wednesday, then a cold front takes another hit to temperatures Wednesday night. This system also brings light snow with a dusting possible.

Our extreme cold warning finally ends by Tuesday afternoon as much of Minnesota ends a streak of subzero temperatures. 

Bitter cold stretch ends Tuesday afternoon

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA, via Pivotal Weather

Expected snow Tuesday night and Wednesday

Bitter cold stretch ends Tuesday afternoon

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