MN weather: Frost and freeze expected Friday night

Meteorologist Jared Piepenburg on this Friday afternoon. The breeze is backing off somewhat. It's still out there. Not as windy as it was this morning, but the sky has been clearing. We'll continue to see that clearing. It looks like we're just setting up for a pretty chilly start for most of the area tomorrow. We had some warnings, advisories pop up on your phone, potential frost, and even the freeze for the southern half of Minnesota for tomorrow. Let's just walk you through how this is setting up. So, Friday afternoon, we still had some gusts reaching into the mid-20s. As we head into the evening, winds will taper off, and at some point after midnight, potentially into tomorrow morning, those winds will go pretty light, but then they'll already start to pick up. So we're going to have this little window here. We have the clear sky, this cold air mass moving in, and then the winds going light. And that combination, sometime overnight tonight into tomorrow morning, will lead to those temperatures quickly dropping off, potentially mid to lower 30s and even some upper 20s. So if you have some plants you want to keep around here as temperatures still look pretty warm throughout the forecast, then maybe cover them up, bring them inside as they could still be doing some flowering next week as we could reach near 70 in a few days. Tomorrow afternoon, though, we get breezy again. Some gusts, upper 20s, not out of the question for your Saturday afternoon. I wouldn't doubt if someone reports a 30-mile-an-hour wind gust, maybe just above. So not as blustery as what we had Friday morning, but there's still going to be a breeze out there on Saturday. That'll last Saturday night, which will actually help temperatures to be not as cold. So we've got one pretty chilly start, and that is going to be Saturday morning. With that breeze over Saturday night into Sunday morning, they'll keep temperatures milder for this time of year. And then Sunday, I'd still say it's going to stay a little bit breezy until about midday, and then those winds will start to back off. So at some point on Saturday morning through Sunday midday, we're going to be kind of breezy out there. Your Friday afternoon, though, temps really aren't going to move much here. The sky is clearing. We'll top off upper 40s to near 50. overnight tonight chilly temperatures lower 30s and maybe some pockets or two of some upper 20s not out of the question Twin Cities will likely have that urban heat island effect going on so mid 30s may just be a fraction warmer than some if you want to call that warmer but in comparison so it'll be kind of chilly out there we have uh freeze warnings for most of the purple shaded area out there and the blue for the counties around the metro we have the we do have our frost advisories out there so we'll just have to keep that in mind for tomorrow morning and then tomorrow we'll get about 10 degrees warmer mid and upper 50s to near 60 we'll get kind of breezy but it's a south wind for tomorrow and that'll help temperatures be a little bit warmer 50 to 60 to 67 we're still breezy at least for the first half of the day on your sunday and then turning out to be really really nice and pleasant for almost the whole forecast there's one chance of maybe some showers moving through on wednesday otherwise pretty dry outlook with more sunshine than clouds and our mornings will be much warmer We just have that one chilly start that we're looking at for tomorrow morning.