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Cold temps linger in southwest Minnesota

MARSHALL — Frigid temperatures are expected to stick around in southwest Minnesota heading into next week. After a cold weather advisory Wednesday night, National Weather Service forecasts showed a slight warm-up on Friday, followed by days with low temperatures falling below zero.

“We’re kind of stuck in a cold pattern,” said Kyle Weisser, at the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls.

Southwest Minnesota was in a cold weather advisory from Wednesday night through 9 a.m. Thursday. The forecast for Marshall showed temperatures falling to about 15 degrees below zero on Wednesday night, but wind chills as low as 33 degrees below zero were expected across the region. Wind chills that low can cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes, the NWS advisory said.

Weisser said high winds weren’t expected in the Marshall area. However, with cold temperatures, “Even a 5 to 10 mile per hour wind can really drop that wind chill,” he said.

Some warmer air and a chance for snow could come to the Marshall area on Friday, when the daytime high temperature is forecast at 27 degrees. But after that, the cold will settle back in, Weisser said.

Sunday through Wednesday, daytime highs in Marshall are forecast to be between zero and 10 degrees, Weisser said.

While temperatures the next few days will be cold, the forecasts are still about 10 to 15 degrees away from breaking any records in Marshall, Weisser said. The record low temperature recorded for Feb. 14 in Marshall is 27 degrees below zero, he said. The record for Feb. 16 was 36 degrees below zero, in 1936.

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