Some Light Rain & Snow on Sunday

A weather system approaching from the west will keep the Stateline cloudy overnight. It is expected to be a fairly significant snow producer for parts of  east central Minnesota, norhtwestern Wisconsin, and the UP of Michigan.  Up to a foot of snow may fall in those areas by the time the low has moved to northern Michigan on Sunday night.   The Stateline will only be grazed by this system as the band of heavy snow will fall to the north of the path of the low which will be across southern Minnesota, and  central Wisconsin just to the north of Madison.

Temperatures will be fairly steady with a low in the the low 30's. Some light rain may develop after midnight, and light rain could mix with some wet snow after 3 am. The morning on Sunday will start with light rain or light snow. No snow accumulation is anticipated with warm ground surfaces. In the afternoon light rain will be likely. The high on Sunday will be around 40 degrees under cloudy skies. It will remain cloudy overnight on Sunday night, but it will turn colder with a low in the low 20's. A cold northwesterly breeze will feed modified arctic air from Canada into the upper mid west on Monday, and the afternoon high will only be around 27 degrees.  That is a temperature that would be close to normal for the middle of winter in mid January, and the overnight low on Monday night will be about as cold as we have seen so far this season...around 15 degrees.  It will still be cold on Tuesday, but not quite as chilly with a high near freezing under partly cloudy skies.  The cold high will begin to shift off to the east on Wednesday, and it will provide slightly warmer temperatures (around 37 degrees for an afternoon high) under mostly sunny skies.  On Thursday it will be sunny and milder with a high around 42 degrees.  That's nicely above the average high of 34 degrees.  Some cloudiness will work it's way across the area on Thursday, but there will be only a slight change in temperature.  The high will be near 40.  On Friday a low pressure storm system will spin up into the Stateline.  It will be warm enough that the precipitation associated with it will be in the form of rain.