We are going through a historical record 10-days of February freezing in Minnesota after relatively mind November to January weather. It almost feels like it’s a payback to the mild weather we have had during this winter season. It’s a bitter reminder to Minnesotans that nothing comes free here, especially its unforgiving winter weather.
On Saturday morning Updraft post, meteorologist Ron Trenda writes that Minnesota including the Twin Cities had coldest wind chills in Friday nights into Saturday morning and expected to stay until the weekend.
Temps early Saturday morning range from the 30s below zero in far northern Minnesota to the single-digits below zero in the far south, including the Twin Cities metro area. Coldest wind chills are to the north.
Senior meteorologist Paul Hunter writes “The core of winter’s coldest air mas oozes into Minnesota this weekend. The mercury plunged to 45 degrees below zero in Cotton, Minnesota Friday morning. Several locations in northern Minnesota exceeded 40-below.”
Coldest weekend of winter. Expect more negative 40s up north. The Twin Cities bottomed out at negative 16 last weekend. I think we’ll see minus 20 at MSP Airport this weekend, with minus 20s to near 30 below zero in some of the colder the ‘burbs like Lakeville.
By next week, the upper air pattern finally kicks the Polar Vortex lobe out of Minnesota and by next weekend a Pacific flow pattern mercifully returns to Minnesota, writes Paul Hunter.
Related Link
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- Barbaric cold: Wind chills of 50 below forecast for northwest Minnesota | MPR Updraft Blog