Saturday forecast: Winter’s first bite gives way to calmer weather

It’s finally starting to feel like fall and even winter out there.

The Details

Friday marked the first “official” hard freeze (low of 28F or below) of the season at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, dropping to 25F. Over the past 30 years, the average first hard freeze for the metro has occurred on Nov. 23, so we’re actually a little ahead of schedule this year.

I’ve got my sights on a fairly quiet forecast into at least early next week.

The next chance of rain doesn’t appear until Thursday, but that chance could be better to the east of the metro. That could potentially mark the beginning of a more active pattern heading into the pre-Thanksgiving period. Stay tuned, especially if you have travel plans.

If you’re reading this, congratulations! You made it through Doomsday on Friday! Back in 1960, Austrian-American physicist Heinz von Foerster predicted that the world’s population would be approaching infinity on Nov. 13, 2026 (plus or minus 5.5 years), and that we could “be squeezed to death.”

So no, yesterday was no ordinary “Friday the 13th”!

DJ Kayser is filling in for Paul Douglas.

See the current forecast here.