MN weather: Back to fall on Thursday, brief warmup next week

Welcome to your Thursday afternoon. I'm meteorologist Keith Marley. Thank you for clicking on Fox Local or wherever it is that you do. You're clicking for all of our weather fun that we usually have in the afternoons. As I join you on this Thursday, it's back to fall and a fall feel for us. That is for sure as we go on in through the day. And I tell you, it's been a while since we've. Done an afternoon that's this chilly, but it's chilly on paper more than in reality. As we go on through the day today, we've been spoiled. We know that. We've done all of our warm style temperatures. We've done all of our warm craziness overall, but we were in the 60s Monday and Tuesday. We were in the 50s yesterday. So when we are talking about today and tomorrow with highs in the upper 30s to near 40, we also have to process this in reality, which is this is only four or five degrees below average. Average high today is 44. Average high tomorrow is 43. And here we are talking about an afternoon high around 39 or 40 today. Now, granted, our morning cloud cover already showing signs of breaking up as I record this for you. Plenty of some open sky across western and northern Minnesota. By midday, we all kind of get back to partly cloudy sky through the afternoon and then passing clouds tonight. We'll get cold tonight. Overnight lows in the 20s. A deeply frozen night tonight. We've only been frozen twice before this season. So, when we talk about... A deeply frozen night, again, your mind clicks and goes, cold. And yes, it is. But that's average. An average overnight low is 29 for this time of year. So when we talk about an overnight low tonight at 27, that's two degrees below average. And then for tomorrow, brighter than today overall, top to bottom. Less breezy. It's a drafty breeze today, 5 to 15 miles per hour. Tomorrow almost calm. So tomorrow, roughly upper 30s to near 40 again. But tomorrow might feel better just because you have more top to bottom sunshine and less of a breeze. Roughly, though, on paper, the same style day. Still 3 or 4 degrees below average overall. And then as we go into the day on Saturday, you get a nice southeastern flow, 5 miles per hour. And that begins the warm-up process. It's not much of one, but it's important. It sends us back a tick above average into the middle of 40s. And then we start to climb on that mid to upper 40s into Sunday, and then all of a sudden we're in the 50s. So for today, again, breaking up that cloud cover from the morning back to a mix of some sun and clouds this afternoon. Your mileage varies as to whether or not you're flat out mostly sunny or whether you're just partly cloudy. Highs, right around 40, upper 30s to near 40. Then a few clouds, but cold tonight. But that 27 is still just two degrees below average. And then cool sunshine into the day on Friday. Still below average with a bright and blue sky, though. Beautiful day, which is chilly. High right around 40 for us. As we go into the day on Friday, as we head into Saturday, sunshine 44 degrees. Technically, that's a degree or so above average. 47 degrees on Sunday, moving in the right direction. And then notice those morning lows are no longer frozen. Our afternoon highs are all of a sudden in the 50s. And by the middle of next week, an average high is only around 40, if not the upper 30s, by the end of next week. So when we talk about highs in the middle 50s, by the middle of next week, that is 15 degrees above average for this time of year. So in the meantime, although we'll be putting on our fall fashions and strutting around for the next couple of days, And make sure all the lighter layers are in store for at least the early to middle days of next week. Have a great Thursday afternoon.