MN weather: November chill returns Thursday

Good morning. Welcome to your Thursday. I'm meteorologist Cody Massa. Look at that forecast as we're entering a cooler pattern now. No, this is not a forever thing, but we're kind of headed back to seasonal norms for three or four days before we're back above average by the latter part of the weekend into next week. High pressure building in from central and northern Canada. As you'd imagine, that is not exactly a warm location this time of the year. So ushering in some cooler air behind our system that's now well off to our east, much of the eastern half of the country. We'll see a cool couple three days. As we move forward now, that will come with a mix of clouds and sun on our Thursday. A little bit of a breeze out of the north, more clouds the farther east you go, but should squeeze in some sunshine at times here in the Twin Cities. Just be a cooler day overall, down probably 15 or so degrees from Wednesday, with highs right about 40 as we head through Thursday afternoon. Deeply frozen tonight. We'll be fairly quiet and fairly clear. Some clouds staying across our western Wisconsin counties, especially the farther east you go. That will take us through Friday. Once we get to Friday night, though, it gets quite chilly. Clear skies, calm winds, a dry air mass in place, and so that will lead to widespread 20s and pocket teens, even for quite likely the metro burbs. This is going to be a cold start Saturday morning, but we start to rebound from there. A little bit of a breeze out of the south that kicks in Saturday afternoon. But notice also all of the sunshine. In fact, November often, quite often, is one of the cloudiest months of the year for us here in the Twin Cities and statewide. And it looks phenomenally sunny in the seven-day forecast. We'll look at it here in a second. Now, we do have some clouds on our Thursday, a mix of those across the Twin Cities metro, more of that to the north and east. Temperatures holding back from seasonal norms by a couple 3 degrees and certainly much cooler than Wednesday. Widespread 30s and pocket low 40s will go right about 40 here in the metro. Widespread 20s, some pocket teens Thursday night into Friday morning, so dress appropriately. Gloves and hats certainly could be needed. And then for your Friday, some solid sunshine with the exception of some of our eastern zones. Highs will be very similar, a lot of 30s to just about 40. And then check out that 70 forecast. It doesn't get much brighter than this time of the year. Low to mid 40s on Saturday, mid to borderline upper 40s on Sunday. Lots of sunshine through the weekend, and we roll that into next week. Widespread 50s. Starting on Monday and going through Wednesday of next week.