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00:00We got some needed moisture over the weekend for parts of Minnesota, especially northern Minnesota.
00:04We've got an active pattern here through the week, a northwest flow, strong jet stream,
00:08already a clipper disturbance that will come through tonight and tomorrow.
00:10We're also watching a bigger storm potentially for the weekend again,
00:14along with a warming trend this week.
00:15Hello from Phoenix, Arizona. This is where I'll be working from the next few days,
00:30where they're in an extreme drought here, even for a desert area.
00:34Well, northern Minnesota got quite a bit of snowfall over the weekend,
00:3610 inches in International Falls, Hovland up on the north shore, 9.5 inches in Grand Marais,
00:43and not a whole lot of water in southern Minnesota out of this.
00:45They did pick up anywhere from a half inch to an inch of liquid equivalent precipitation
00:50in parts of northern Minnesota, but MSP just three hundredths of an inch,
00:54not very much in the way of moisture.
00:57But everybody had a lot of wind on Sunday, and now we're in a window of sunshine,
01:02clearing skies here across much of the central part of the state.
01:05You can see that fresh snow where there's lack of trees there in northwestern Minnesota.
01:09The snow looks brightest, and you can also see migrating birds on radar.
01:13This morning, all those fuzzy round areas are birds in flight close to the radar sites,
01:18and of course there is rainfall you can see in the eastern U.S. too.
01:23Temperatures there will be pretty close to normal.
01:25It's still a little bit above upper 40s to near 50 in the Twin Cities,
01:28into the 50s in southwestern Minnesota with that fresh snow up north.
01:32Temperatures will stay in the 30s, but we remain in an active pattern here.
01:35We've got a strong jet stream northwest flow here coming out of Canada,
01:39and that means a clipper system moving in tonight into Tuesday.
01:43Not going to be doing a whole lot,
01:44but we are going to see some widely scattered rain, snow showers,
01:48and depending upon the timing, early in the morning, mainly in the form of snow,
01:53but by later in the day with warmer temperatures,
01:56mainly in the form of some scattered rain showers.
01:58Looks like most of it stays west and south of most of the Twin Cities area.
02:02And then generally a warming trend through the week,
02:04and quiet after this system tonight into tomorrow,
02:07well into the 60s Friday, if not 70s.
02:10Canadian model is an outlier,
02:12but just to show you, 82 is what it's going for on Friday.
02:16So 70s are certainly possible on Friday,
02:19and that'd be our second one, of course, of this month of March already.
02:22But we're also watching a weekend storm system.
02:23It's going to start a wintry mix probably for northern Minnesota Friday,
02:27and then as we head into Friday night, Saturday, those showers will fill in.
02:30Looks like mainly liquid for us in the southern part of the state,
02:33but it's all going to depend upon the precise track of that system.
02:36But I would count on a wintry mix of rain and snow
02:39for much of the region here heading into the weekend.
02:42Snowfall most likely favored for central and northern Minnesota at this point,
02:46but that can change still several days out.
02:49But this weekend storm system potentially has,
02:53could deliver quite a bit of precipitation here,
02:56liquid equivalent rainfall of maybe an inch to inch and a half.
03:00A reminder that two-thirds of the state remains in at least moderate drought,
03:03so we definitely can use the moisture.
03:0649 today, 51 tomorrow.
03:08Again, a shower or two possible, but generally west and south of the Twin Cities.
03:12And then those temperatures trending upward here Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
03:15almost 20 degrees above normal by the end of the week.
03:18With some of those showers developing, yet another weekend time storm system.
03:22Not the greatest timing, but could be sloppy here with rain and snow potentially
03:27Friday night into Saturday and Sunday.
03:29And that's what we're going to be watching all week is the precise track of that system,
03:33how much cold air can get in,
03:35and who's most likely to get yet another heavy wet snowfall.
03:38March certainly has been a much more active month
03:41than our meteorological winter months were of December, January, February.