(KNSI) — The area is in line for a dose of weather whiplash this week.
The National Weather Service says the St. Cloud area could see a high Monday of 59 degrees. That beats the old record of 55 set in 1958. It may not feel like 59, given the stiff south winds gusting at 30 miles an hour.
Overnight Monday into Tuesday, the area will bottom out in the upper 20s, which is the historic average around this time of the year. Tuesday will hit a high temp of 38 and then plummet. Flurries move in Tuesday mid-afternoon before snow kicks in. We’ll see patchy blowing snow through the late afternoon and eventually land at around 20. Winds will be out of the north/northwest, gusting to around 35 miles an hour.
Tuesday night will be quite January like as we’ll see an overnight low in the low single digits above zero. A high of 21 is expected for Wednesday before we rocket back to near 50 Thursday, upper 50s Friday, and we could see the 60s for the weekend.
Of course, this is Minnesota, so everything could change.
Stay tuned.
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