MN weather: Sunny but chilly Friday

Good morning. Welcome to your Friday meteorologist. Cody Matts with a look at that forecast. Did want to update you on the drought monitor. Remember that big November storm? We had two to six inches of rain over the course of three or four days. Well, we finally finished calculating all that moisture into our drought monitor. It took two consecutive weeks to actually get that done. And so you look at two weeks ago, it was dry. You look at now the new drought monitor. Well, look at that improvement. Granted, still moderate drought considered from basically the metro and the 35 corridor. Eastward into western Wisconsin, but man, that's some big time improvement over just the last couple three weeks or so going into the winter season. And now that the ground is essentially going to freeze, we lock that moisture in and so it should be much better off in the spring season as we saw, of course, in April and May of next year. High pressure, though, building in will stay nice and quiet. And honestly, November can be a very cloudy month for us on average. And there's just not a lot of cloud cover in the forecast as high pressure builds in. Check out Futurecast. We're starting off chilly on your Friday will be a cool afternoon. A couple degrees below average, but pretty nice. Lots of sunshine, some exceptions. Across our far eastern zones with a few clouds rolling off of Lake Superior, but even those fall apart as we head through Friday night and Saturday. Friday night will be quite cold. Same for your start on Saturday. Saturday afternoon, though, real nice blue sky continues a little bit of a light breeze out of the south. Temperatures going in the right directions beginning to rise, increasing two to four degrees on Saturday. Another two to four degrees or so on Sunday as we continue the full on sunshine. It's going to be a pretty nice A little cooler than we've been accustomed to, but overall pretty quiet and pretty nice for your Friday you'll need the sunglasses in most cases, maybe some exceptions across central Wisconsin. Temperatures similar to what we had on Thursday afternoon. A lot of upper 30s to just about 40. We're back to the 20s, low 20s at that and some pocket teens 23 tonight in the Twin Cities. So it's a chilly start, but we will warm quickly. Saturday afternoon, a lot of low to borderline middle 40s. We'll try for 44 here in the Twin Cities. Check out that sunshine and that seven day forecast that will take us through the weekend and through a lot of next week. And temperatures warm as well. 40s over the weekend, 50s return for several days next week.