Next week in Minnesota, prepare for the coldest temperatures of the fall season so far.

Our extended summer will continue for most of this week, but a strong cold front will bring the coldest air mass of the season so far to Minnesota early next week.

The pattern change will bring widespread frost and freezing temperatures to locations across southern Minnesota that have not yet experienced a frost.

View the model temperature output from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Forecast System between Thursday afternoon and Tuesday morning on the map below.

You can see temperatures peaking at more than 80 degrees across much of southern Minnesota Thursday afternoon. Then watch as temperatures drop downwards over the weekend, bottoming out in the 20s and 30s on Tuesday morning.

So enjoy our 70s and 80s for the rest of this week. It looks like we’ll finally reach below average temperatures in Minnesota early next week.