Here's the weather outlook through the weekend, which shows mostly quiet weather close to home. The best chance of snow will be found across the far northeastern part of the state and will be very light.

The latest snow depth reports show a fairly decent base across the region. The Metro was reporting around 9" as of Tuesday, but has you head north, there are some double digit reports. According to the MN DNR Snowmobile and cross-country ski trails are generally reported to be in good to very good conditions across the northern half of the state. Trails in the southern half of the state are reported to poor condition with little to now snow on the ground there.

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Here's a look at how much snow we've seen so far this season. Note the Twin Cities has seen nearly 33", which is nearly +5.0" above average. Grand Forks, ND has seen nearly 40" of snow, which is more than 1ft above average! Heading south into South Dakota, many locations there are below average and more than 1ft below average in Pierre and Huron. Folks in southern Wisconsin are also nearly 1ft below average, including Madison and Milwaukee.

Here's the 850mb temp anomaly through the end of the week and weekend ahead. The end of the week will be quite chilly with below average temps once again. However, as we head into the weekend, warmer temps will move back in.

The weather outlook for Minneapolis on Thursday shows falling temps as we head through the under partly cloudy skies. NNW winds will be breezy and will make it feel more like the single digits through much of the day.

The hourly temps for Minneapolis on Thursday show temps starting in the low/mid 20s with falling temps through the day. Actual air temps will be in the lower teens by sunset. NNW winds will be a bit breezy with gusts approaching 20mph to 25mph.

High temps across the region on Thursday will be running close to average across the southern half of the state. However, high temps will occur early in the day and will fall to below average temps through the afternoon.

The extended temperature outlook for Minneapolis over the next several days shows temps running closer to average on Thursday, but again temps will fall through the day, so it will feel quite a bit colder than average in the afternoon. Highs on Friday will be nearly -15F below average with near average temps again this weekend.

After a chilly end of week, temp get back to and slightly above average over the weekend and early next week. We're also keeping an eye on some snowfall potential around midweek. Stay tuned...

According to the ECMWF & GFS extended temperature outlook, temperatures will be colder through the late week time frame before a milder weekend and early next week time frame. The first few days of February could be cold once again with highs running well below average.

According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, the 8 to 14 day temperature outlook shows below average temps across much of the Central and Southern US. It could be a cold start to February for many.

"Almost nothing is more tedious than complaining about the weather" wrote author Meghan Daum. But if the weather didn't change every now and then what would we talk about? At a time when we agree on very little, we can (usually) agree on the current state of the atmosphere.

Yes, we've had a cold stretch, but by my count 14 nights below zero at MSP, and no subzero highs, to date. Average for the winter in the metro is 23 subzero nights. February 2021 brought a magical 12 consecutive nights below zero and 4 subzero "highs". Ouch.

Climate Central analysis shows 5 fewer colder-than-average winter days at MSP since 1970. It still gets cold. Just not as cold as it did 50 years ago.

Here comes a Minnesota warm front: 20s over the weekend with low 30s by Monday. A big snow and ice storm should track (just) south of Minnesota next week. Sorry snow lovers.

Looking ahead I see fewer subzero nights and slow warming into early February. Spring is MIA, but are the coldest nights of winter behind us now? Probably.

THURSDAY NIGHT: Mostly clear and cold. Winds: NW 5-10. Low: -7.

FRIDAY: Blue sky. This is getting old. Winds: SW 5-10. High: 10.

SATURDAY: Some sun. "Average" feels good. Winds: SW 8-13. Wake-up: 8. High: 26.

SUNDAY: More clouds than sun. Winds: S 5-10. Wake-up: 14. High: 22.

MONDAY: Plenty of sunshine, milder. Winds: SE 8-13. Wake-up: 18 High: 32.

WEDNESDAY: Clouds linger, chilly again. Winds: NW 10-20 Wake-up: 0. High: 6.

January 27th

2006: A record high temperature of 50 degrees is set at the Eau Claire Regional Airport.

January 27th

Average High: 24F (Record: 47F set in 1934)

Record Rainfall: 0.49" set in 2013

Record Snowfall: 63.8" set in 19716

January 27th

Sunrise: 7:37am

Sunset: 5:14pm

Daylight GAINED since yesterday: ~ 2 minute & 23 seconds

Daylight GAINED since Winter Solstice (December 21st): ~ 50 minutes

1.7 Days After Last Quarter Moon

The weather outlook on Thursday shows below average temps along the East Coast and the Central US. Meanwhile, folks in California will be above average with windy weather developing in Southern California.

The weather outlook as we head into the weekend shows a large storm system developing along the East Coast. This storm system will be responsible for heavy snow for some in the Northeast with very strong winds that could gust close to hurricane force for some. Meanwhile, many locations in the Western US will stay dry through the weekend.

Here's the extended snowfall potential as we head into the early part of February. Note the heavy snow chance this weekend along the coast in the Northeast. However, there could be another decent snow event that develops in the Central US by the middle part of next week. Stay tuned...

"THE JAMES WEBB Space Telescope (JWST) has made it into position — and there are pictures to prove it. On Tuesday, the Virtual Telescope project released an image of the new telescope among the stars. The 300-second exposure, captured with the "Elena" telescope, shows the project around 1.4 million kilometers (869,919 miles) from Earth. JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: WHAT TO KNOW The telescope features a 21-foot, four-inch-thick set of 18 mirrors coated in gold. This bounces light into an infrared sensor. Its ultra-wide perspective enables it to observe around a third of the sky at a given time. It's nearly three times bigger than the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched in 1990 and has provided some of the most dramatic images of space. NASA will use the new telescope to reveal more about the origins of the universe. It could also provide insights into far-flung exoplanets that could hold life. It's also expected to help researchers understand Sagittarius A*. Scientists have yet to image what they believe is a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy."

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"Clear winter skies and the promise of a recent evening's beautiful sunset led photographer Simone Engels to a nearby park on Vancouver Island. But as she trained her lens on the pinkish hue of the landscape of the Pacific coast, she was shocked to see a large, iceberg-like shape on the horizon. "It was this huge, shiny, three-dimensional tubular structure," she said. "It looked so real." Engels, who previously studied geography, cycled through possible explanations, including that a large piece of ice had improbably drifted down from Alaska, miraculously passing through narrow straits and dodging archipelagos. But if an iceberg was in the area – especially one of that size – it would surely have made local news, she told herself. "I was trying to pin this together in my head, and I really couldn't come up with an explanation," she said. "It just looked so odd and I was nearly convinced that it really was an iceberg I was staring at." With no one else around to confirm the mysterious sighting, she snapped an image and for nearly half an hour, watched the hulking white shape on the horizon before it disappeared from sight."

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