20s This Weekend With Saturday The Warmer Day - Single Digit Highs Return Next Week

After highs were cooler once again Friday, we will see them warm into the 20s this weekend here in the Twin Cities. Saturday will be the warmer day with highs approaching 30F, but behind a cold front, we'll be back into the low 20s for highs on Sunday. Expect a mix of sun and clouds to partly sunny skies each day.

Here's a closer look at Saturday in the Twin Cities. We'll start off around 10F in the early morning hours before climbing to the 20s by the midday and nearing 30F during the afternoon.

With an area of low pressure moving south out of Canada across the Arrowhead and into the Great Lakes, a batch of snow will be possible for areas like International Falls and Grand Marais. Otherwise, we'll see a mixture of clouds and sun across the rest of the state with highs ranging from the teens to 30s.

Sunday will be cooler behind that cold front - only in the teens and 20s across the state - but no inclement weather is expected.

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We'll then warm to the 30s on Monday before the next cold front moves in, bringing dropping temperatures during the day Tuesday and then highs only in the single digits and teens Wednesday and Thursday. No snow is in the forecast, but we will be tracking a potentially large storm passing to our south during the middle of the week impacting areas like Kansas City, Chicago, and Detroit.

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The National Weather Service in Fargo released their first 2022 Spring Flood Outlook on Thursday, and they do say that there is "a moderate to somewhat high threat for significant snowmelt flooding" this spring.

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At Least Florida Is Freezing Too
By Paul Douglas

"Schadenfreude". Noun. Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. The reason I bring this up: Florida is freezing too this morning. Highs will be in the 40s (56F "high" at Naples). Frosty in Tampa and Orlando. 50s in Miami, where some women will be wearing their furs. OK. We feel their pain.

A "Bomb Cyclone", a rapidly-intensifying storm, will pummel coastal New England with 2 foot snows, 60 mph winds and power outages today. Believe it or not we are one of the quieter states, weatherwise.

20s will feel good today, and ECMWF hints at 30F next weekend. But I see no extended thaws, but rather a polar parade of subzero smacks as we sail into February. Not as cold as January, but cold enough. Spring is coming. Really!

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Paul's Extended Twin Cities Forecast

SATURDAY: Sunny peeks. Not bad. Wake up 7. High 27. Chance of precipitation 10%. Wind SW 8-13 mph.

MONDAY: Patchy clouds, milder. Wake up 12. High 29. Chance of precipitation 20%. Wind SE 8-13 mph.

TUESDAY: Blue sky, falling temperatures. Wake up 17. High 22. Chance of precipitation 10%. Wind NW 15-25 mph.

WEDNESDAY: Cloudy and cold. Wake up -2. High 8. Chance of precipitation 20%. Wind NW 8-13 mph.

THURSDAY: Snow stays south. Slow clearing. Wake up -8. High 2. Chance of precipitation 10%. Wind NW 7-12 mph.

FRIDAY: Sunny and cold. Wake up -14. High 4. Chance of precipitation 0%. Wind SW 3-8 mph.

Minneapolis Weather Almanac And Sun Data
January 29th

*Length Of Day: 9 hours, 40 minutes, and 54 seconds
*Daylight GAINED Since Yesterday: 2 minutes and 28 seconds

*When Do We See 10 Hours Of Daylight: February 6th (10 hours, 1 minute, 53 seconds)
*Next Sunrise At/Before 7:30 AM: February 3rd (7:30 AM)
*Next Sunset At/After 5:30 PM: February 8th (5:31 PM)

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This Day in Weather History
January 29th

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The major story Saturday will be an area of low pressure off the Northeast Coast (a Nor'easter), bringing very heavy snow, strong winds, and coastal flooding to the region. A few snow showers will be possible across the Great Lakes with a system moving through. Rain and snow will start to work into the Pacific Northwest Saturday Night.

At least 1-2 feet of snow will fall across portions of the Northeast through the weekend with that Nor'easter. We'll also see some rain and snow in the Pacific Northwest as we head into the second half of the weekend.

Here's a closer look at some of the blockbuster snowfall totals expected across the Northeast with the Nor'easter moving past the region. Areas of eastern New England, including the Boston area, could see at least 16-24" of snow. Factor in strong gusty winds and you'll see whiteout and blizzard conditions for some.

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More from CarbonBrief: "The growing range of three economically important crops – avocados, cashews and coffee – will undergo significant shifts under even moderate warming scenarios by 2050, new research shows. The study, published in PLOS One, examines the climate, soil and land factors that affect the suitability for growing each of the three crops. The researchers then map out how these optimal growing regions could change under three different global-warming scenarios. For all three crops, they find "both regions of future expansion and contraction" under shifting temperatures and rainfall patterns. But they also note that the area of land they rate "most suitable" for crop-growing in many of the major producing countries will largely shrink in the coming decades."

A federal judge canceled major oil and gas leases over climate change

More from NPR: "Late last year, just days after pledging to cut fossil fuels at international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, the Biden administration held the largest oil and gas lease sale in U.S. history. On Thursday, a federal judge invalidated that sale in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the administration didn't adequately consider the costs to the world's climate. The administration used an analysis conducted under former President Donald Trump that environmental groups alleged was critically flawed. The decision represents a major win for a coalition of environmental groups that challenged the controversial sale, calling it a "huge climate bomb.""

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

More from Inside Climate News: "Western Pennsylvania residents and doctors have been going public for several years with their concerns that fracking for fossil gas has sickened people and may be causing rare cancers in children. Today, a new study out of Harvard links fracking with early deaths of senior citizens. Published in the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature Energy, the team of researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health blames a mix of airborne contaminants associated with what is known as unconventional oil and gas development. That is when companies use horizontal drilling and liquids under pressure to fracture underground rock to release the fossil fuels through a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The closer people 65 and older lived to wells, the greater their risk of premature mortality, the study found."

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- D.J. Kayser