MN weather: Twin Cities sees coldest temperature of the season so far on Tuesday

MN weather: Cold but sunny day on Tuesday

It will be bitterly cold on Tuesday, with widespread highs in the single digits and subzero windchills. FOX 9 meteorologist Cody Matz has your forecast.

MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) - Frigid temperatures in the Twin Cities on Tuesday morning were the coldest of the season so far.

Frigid temperatures in Minnesota

What we know:

Tuesday morning brought the coldest temperatures of the season so far to the Twin Cities metro, with lows dipping to minus 9 degrees. Northwestern Minnesota experienced even colder conditions with air temperatures in the subzero teens.

A cold weather advisory was issued on Tuesday morning for areas of southern, western, and central Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, due to windchills reaching 25 to 30 degrees below zero.

Through Tuesday, we’ve seen eight subzero temperatures for the season, more than all last winter, which was the warmest winter on record. More subzero temperatures are in the forecast.

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A brief thaw and then we're headed back to the freezer

What to expect:

A quick warmup will round out the workweek, as temperatures climb above freezing. It is not uncommon even for us here in Minnesota to see a brief thaw or two during even the coldest months of the season.

Once we get through the brief thaw though, temperatures start tumbling heading through the weekend, and may not stop until sometime early next week, with the coldest air of the winter so far looking more and more likely.

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The cold could encompass a lot of the country, with the coldest temperatures of the season could fall from here to the Gulf Coast. The daily highs could likely dip below zero on Monday, with overnight lows in the teens below zero.

The average coldest temperature each year here in the Twin Cities is 18 degrees below zero, so teens below zero are definitely cold, but not exactly unusual.