Regional view.
It will be dry and mild across most of the region for Friday and Saturday with highs ranging in the 40s north to 60s south. Sunday a small weak disturbance will moves across Southern Minnesota and could spark a few light showers across Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa. It will clear out for most of the region on Monday, as warmer, drier air moves in from the southwest.
Local view with Halloween Theme
Metro View
Friday, Sunny skies, mild with highs in the mid 50s, Friday Night, Chilly clear skies with lows in the upper 20s
Saturday, Sunny skies, mild with highs in the middle 50s. Saturday Night, Increasing clouds, lows in the upper 30s to 40
Sunday, Cloudy with a chance of light rain showers, possibly becoming widespread. Highs in the mid to upper 40s. Sunday Night, Clearing skies, lows in the mid to upper 30s.
Halloween Day! Clearing skies, mild with highs in the mid 50s. Monday Night, Partly cloudy skies with lows in the upper 30s.
Looking Ahead
It remains more mild, and stays through Tuesday of next, then on Wednesday and Thursday a dry southward moving cold front will bring in cooler temperatures and a chance for snowfall to northeast of the area. This is replaced by warmer air by weeks end. Then on Sunday the 6th the models show a stronger storm system moving Northeast from Nebraska to Minnesota, spreading widespread rainfalls to much of the southeastern 2 3rds of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Northern Iowa with snowfall in Northwestern Minnesota and North Dakota. Our area would be on the mild side of this system meaning it would be all rain. Temperatures remain fair for the local area even after the storm system passes. Then things get a littler more interesting with the next storm system around Wednesday the 9th of November, a storm system taking the same path, but slightly more east moves through and brings more widespread rain to the area, with it changing to snow behind a cold front on Thursday the 10th which could be the areas 1st snowfall. After this things take a turn for remaining cold, A 3rd system follows on Saturday the 12th accept this time it comes when cold air is intrenched in the area, meaning that one would be all, or mostly snow, but this will change. Stay tuned as the next few weeks pass by.
It is difficult for me to trust the long range models past 7 days but I am on board now with this weekends system. We’ll see how it all transpires!