While the wait goes on for meaningful snow in the Twin Cities, Minnesota's North Shore is set for a significant amount this weekend. A winter storm watch has been issued by the National Weather Service for the Lake Superior shore, where up to 10 inches of snow could fall on Saturday and Sunday.

St. Paul hit 52 degrees on Thursday, a record for Jan. 30, though temperatures are expected to drop as a cold front comes through in the evening. The Twin Cities’ previous Jan. 30 record of 48 degrees happened in 1879 and 1989.

Bundle up, Minnesota. The longest cold snap in nearly six years is on the way, and the mercury might not rise above zero from Saturday night until Tuesday afternoon. An arctic air mass that originated in Siberia will send temperatures tumbling from the balmy 30s Friday morning to well below zero for the weekend,

“A clipper brings a chance of snow to the Northland Tues/Tues night, with a dusting up to several inches accumulation,” says the NWS in Duluth. “Greatest snow accumulation is expected over the Arrowhead and in the NW WI snowbelt.”

While we can expect the lower 40s for highs here in Central Minnesota on Tuesday, part of our state will have much more winter-like weather.

Experience Minnesota’s thaw with temps reaching the mid-40s with sunshine this week. Don’t get too comfortable— subzero temperatures return by Sunday night.

The northernmost 33 counties in Minnesota (nearly half of the state - all shown in dark blue above) will see an extreme cold warning, which goes into effect at 6 pm on Saturday night and stays in place through noon on Tuesday.

It's been a relatively quiet and lackluster winter so far in the 'Land of Ten Thousand Lakes' but a fast-moving winter storm could drastically change the Minnesota landscape as early as Tuesday.

The National Weather Service says we could have some record high temperatures today (Tuesday) across west central and central Minnesota. They say it will also be windy today as

Residents in northern Minnesota can expect extremely cold temperatures over the weekend and into Tuesday as wind chills dip down as low as 55 degrees below zero.

The rare winter storm that hit the southern U.S. dumped significant amounts of snow on areas that usually get none.

Rochester, which has averaged a high of 23 degrees at this time, beat its previous record high of 48 degrees on Jan. 30, 1919. The city reached 56 degrees by Thursday evening, according to the National Weather Service Twin Cities. Duluth came within one degree of its 1890 record of 44 degrees.