5:42 PM Wednesday, April 30, 2025
-Rain is expected tonight in northern Minnesota, while the rest of the Northland will remain dry.
-Rain will spread into east central Minnesota, the North Shore, and northwest Wisconsin on Thursday afternoon to early evening.
-Enough cold air could work into the backside of this system to cause some of the rain to mix with or change to wet snow Friday morning inland from Lake Superior in northeast Minnesota and far northern Wisconsin.
-Precipitation totals ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 inches or more are possible in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin by Friday afternoon.
For Duluth: It will be dry tonight and Thursday morning, but rain is expected Thursday afternoon and will continue into Friday, tapering off by the afternoon.
NAM 3km model simulated radar forecast through 7 PM Friday.
There may be some early May snow on Friday morning in far northeast Minnesota and northern Wisconsin, especially inland from Lake Superior.
Rain chances return to the Northland Thursday into Friday morning as an upper-level trough deepens and moves east out of the northern plains and across the upper Midwest.
EPS model 500mb forecast valid 7 AM Thursday to 7 PM Friday.
A mild spring day in most of the Northland as we saw temperatures in the 60s, with even a few locations in the southern parts getting up to 70 degrees. However, an east wind off the big pond kept temperatures around 40 within about 15 miles of Lake Superior.
A much more amplified pattern is still expected to develop next week with at least two upper-level lows centered over the Southwest and Eastern U.S., while an upper-level ridge intensifies across the Upper Midwest and Central Canada. This pattern looks pretty dry for Northeast Minnesota and Northwest Wisconsin for much of next week.
High temperatures in the 60s and 70s are likely in northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin this weekend into next week, but whether or not these warmer temperatures occur closer to Lake Superior will depend on daily wind directions. There is a chance that we could see at least 3 days of warmer temps even near the lake between this weekend and next week.
Note: We might see our first 70-degree day of the year in Duluth this weekend or next week. The average date for the first 70 is April 28th, while last year it was on May 12th.
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