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Our lollygagging two-day spring slop storm will gradually pull out of Minnesota Wednesday night into early Thursday.

Rain and snow continue to fall across different parts of Minnesota Wednesday. It’s all snow across most of northern into parts of southwestern Minnesota. In the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota, it’s warm enough for mostly rain.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s High-Resolution Rapid Refresh model shows the system slowly spinning away from Minnesota between 1 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday.

 continue into Wednesday evening for most of northern Minnesota. Several more inches of heavy wet snow will fall into Wednesday night. Some of the heaviest accumulations will be along the North Shore. 

Here’s more detail from National Weather Service office in Duluth:

As of Wednesday, the weather maps don’t show any major rain and snow systems for the next 10 days. Could this be the last big snow of the season for much of Minnesota? Stay tuned.

Our weather will gradually improve across Minnesota in the next few days. We trend gradually sunnier Thursday into the weekend. Highs will moderate into the 50s south with 40s north by Friday. 

Right now, the weather maps suggest a significant warmup late next week into the weekend of April 12-13. Several models are cranking out highs in the 60s to 70s in about eight to 10 days.

Hang in there. True spring may be coming over the horizon.

Paul Huttner

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Our sloppy spring storm will finally wind down across Minnesota. 

Spring slop storm winds down Wednesday night

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