The Twin Cities and the rest of Minnesota is climbing out of the deep freeze and the warmest weather in more than three weeks is on the way.
Many locations in the state will see well above normal temperatures with the mercury touching 40 degrees or higher as far north as Baudette and International Falls on the Canadian border, the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
In the metro area, the high temperature is predicted to hit 41 degrees on Tuesday and a repeat performance could be on tap for Wednesday, according to the NWS forecast.
“This will lead to some snow melt,” NWS said.
The last time the temperature at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport surpassed the freezing mark was Nov. 25 when the mercury hit 46 degrees. The airport is the official weather observation point for the Twin Cities.
Northern Minnesota could be even a few degrees warmer than the metro with highs of 44 degrees predicted in Big Falls and Bigfork Tuesday. In southwestern Minnesota, Marshall is forecast to see 45 Tuesday and 43 Wednesday.
It’s highly unlikely any high temperature records will be set in the Twin Cities, though it will feel balmy after the subzero readings enveloped the state over the weekend. The record for Tuesday at MSP is 58 degrees set in 2021 and the same mark for Wednesday set in 1939, according to the Weather Channel.
Officially, the Twin Cities bottomed out at minus 11 degrees Sunday morning, the lowest reading of the season so far. But the bone-chilling cold was felt all over with readings of minus 20 degrees or lower in places such as Browerville, Royalton, Little Falls, Long Prairie, Sauk Centre and Camp Ripley.
