Bar Patios Opening Early With Warm Spring

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) This weekend we have yet another chance to get out and enjoy Minnesota. Spring fever just wont stop.

Temperatures are expected to hit 72 and 79, respectively, on Saturday and Sunday. The warm weather means were able to enjoy activities wed usually have to wait weeks for.

I think people want us to be open, said Chris Weglinski, who co-owns Sea Salt next to Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis. Our staff wants to work. I want to get back to work. The weathers nice.

Hes stocked up on calamari, shrimp and other food. Theres also plenty of beer on tap and wine for the season opener. It comes a full week earlier than usual. Sea Salt starts serving Friday.

People are just antsy to get outside, and if youre from Minnesota, you spend those Januarys and Februarys just twitching to do something fun, Weglinski said.

Fan favorites will make another comeback, including grilled fish tacos, crab cakes and much more.

I havent had this food in like five months, so Im kind of craving it, he said.

Minnesotans have been craving sun, and theyve been getting it in record doses.

This March will be the warmest on record every for a Minnesota March. Weve hit 70 degrees or warmer eight times this month.

Lord Fletchers on Lake Minnetonka is setting its own record too.

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Bar Patios Opening Early With Warm Spring