The Weather Channel predicts warm start, cold finish to winter in Minnesota

If The Climate Channel is correct about its lengthy vary winter outlook, it should get colder and colder in every as winter goes on in Minnesota. 

For the overall December-February interval, The Climate Channel outlook requires barely beneath regular temperatures all through Minnesota, with the Arrowhead of Minnesota standing the most effective likelihood for beneath regular readings. 

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That is the three-month common. This is what it appears like month-by-month. 

• December: close to common temps, possibly barely above
• January: close to regular in southern MN, beneath regular in northern MN
• February: beneath regular throughout all of MN

That outlook is fairly much like what AccuWeather got here out with not too long ago, and it is also much like what the Nationwide Climate Service is pondering. The NWS is pointing in direction of close to regular circumstances in December after which colder than standard temps January and February, with that chill presumably sticking round in March and April. 

“Your winter guess is sort of pretty much as good as anybody’s, particularly this early,” Convey Me The Information meteorologist Sven Sundgaard wrote Oct. 4. “We’re simply beginning to see how the polar vortex will behave as October goes into November and our winter patterns are sometimes taking form fairly late into December lately.”

Take final winter for instance. It was chilly in January and February however December was very gentle – Minnesota had a twister outbreak 10 days earlier than Christmas and solely 5 days after a snowstorm dumped 11.8 inches of snow at MSP Airport. 

The Climate Channel did not get into any snow projections. For these, click on on any of our earlier winter outlook tales beneath to see what completely different retailers are projecting. 

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