Severe storms are rolling through central Minnesota including the Twin Cities

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It’s another frigid day with sunshine and light winds Thursday. Snow develops Friday into Friday night followed by more very cold air.

Bright and cold Thursday with snow developing Friday 

Brrr! It’s another frigid one with widespread readings in the 20s below zero in northern Minnesota and subzero temperatures across the state early Thursday. Cold weather advisories persist statewide through the morning Thursday. 

Highs Thursday afternoon will be mostly in the single digits with sunshine and light winds. 

It won’t be as cold Thursday night, but it’ll still be pretty chilly with subzero readings for much of the state. Increasing cloud cover will put a stop to temperatures dropping as much as previous nights. 

Snow showers develop midday Friday into Friday night, yielding a more-widespread accumulation for much of eastern Minnesota into western Wisconsin. 

The highest totals will be near Duluth and the southeast corner of the state into Wisconsin. 

It will also be briefly warmer Friday with highs in the 20s across southern Minnesota and teens north. 

Don’t get used to the “nearly normal” temperatures Friday — some very frigid air moves back in for Sunday and the first half of next week. 

The coldest air in the hemisphere is essentially split into two right now. Anomalous warmth has been plaguing Alaska and Greenland, Svalbard and the North Atlantic. This warmth has moved toward the North Pole, dividing the air mass. It should return to a more normal looking pattern in 10 days. 

The Arctic warmth and split is likely a result of well below normal Arctic sea ice in the Bering Sea, Okhotsk sea and the Barents Sea. Arctic sea ice has reached its lowest point on the satellite record (going back to 1979) for this point in the season.

We may see lows in the teens below zero for the Twin Cities even by Sunday and Monday nights. 

Sven Sundgaard

Author

It’s another frigid day with sunshine and light winds Thursday. Snow develops Friday into Friday night followed by more very cold air. 

Cold sunshine Thursday with snow Friday

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