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Our weather remains mostly quiet for most of the state. We’ll see seasonable temperatures Friday with a warming trend into early next week.

Temps trend upward into early next week 

We’re (mostly) missing a big snow to our south across Nebraska and Iowa Friday. Far southern Minnesota will be clipped by some of these snow showers. 

Later Friday night, a clipper system will move across northern Minnesota into northwestern Wisconsin into Saturday morning. That will bring with it some light snow showers.

Any snowfall Friday night into Saturday morning looks to stay below 1 to 2 inches for northeastern and east-central Minnesota into northwestern Wisconsin.

Highs Friday will be slightly cooler than Thursday with central Minnesota seeing highs near 40, where we’ll see more sun. With increased cloud cover north and south, temperatures will be mostly in the 30s. 

We’ve already seen quite a bit of melting the last couple of days. We’ve already lost 2 inches of our snow depth in the Twin Cities, or about 23 percent. 

We’ll continue to rapidly melt snow over the weekend. The Twin Cities snowpack will likely be gone by the end of Monday, if not sooner. 

As with the last few nights, watch for refreeze overnight as temps dip back into 20s across the state with single digits in northeastern Minnesota. 

The weekend brings warming temperatures, back above normal with more widespread 40s both days. Central and west-central Minnesota, where there’s little or no snowpack will see highs in the 50s by Sunday. 

Southeastern Minnesota, with deeper snow will be several degrees or more, cooler. 

High temperatures Monday could reach record levels in western Minnesota. The record high in Milan (which has records back to 1894) is 66 degrees set in 2012. Readings could reach the upper 60s to near 70 Monday afternoon.

Overall, the pattern is relatively quiet into the middle of next week. 

We’re watching another potential spring storm system by next weekend, March 14-16, that could bring rain and snow to the region once again. 

As of this moment, models are favoring the Dakotas into northwestern Minnesota for potential heavy snowfall, but this could easily change in the next seven days. 

Sven Sundgaard

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Our weather remains mostly quiet for most of the state. We’ll see seasonable temps today with a warming trend into early next week. 

Mostly quiet with warming temperatures ahead into the weekend

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