NEXT Weather Alert: 48-hour storm could leave Twin Cities with 6-10 inches of snow - CBS Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS -- After a quiescent commencement to the New Year, we leap into our 3rd large tempest of the past 4 weeks -- with this 1 spanning much than 2 days.

The National Weather Service has issued an crystal tempest informing successful respective south-central Minnesota counties. Much of Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, is nether a wintertime tempest warning.

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Light snowfall started to autumn successful the confederate metro and down southbound Monday night, and it volition proceed overnight, but it won't beforehand overmuch farther northbound until the mediate of Tuesday morning.

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Tuesday volition beryllium a warmer day, with a precocious of 32 degrees successful the metro. But this volition beryllium problematic due to the fact that it volition artifact with the phases of precipitation, and make immoderate wet, dense snow.

The heaviest snowfall volition hap Tuesday mid-morning done mid-afternoon. We could spot rates of 1 to 2 inches per hr earlier a lull successful the enactment successful the evening. Wind speeds volition besides beryllium betwixt 10-15 mph, which volition origin immoderate blowing snow.

Lighter bands instrumentality implicit Tuesday evening, and it volition support connected lightly snowing successful the metro done aboriginal Thursday, with the day's precocious temp dropping into the mid-20s

The metro is expected to get betwixt 6-10 inches of accumulation by Thursday, portion areas northbound and westbound of the metro could spot adjacent more. Parts of southwestern Minnesota could get much than a ft of snow.

Friday's precocious temp volition lone beryllium successful the precocious teens successful the metro, but we'll statesman a dilatory warmup done the weekend, with highs successful the precocious 20s to commencement out the enactment week.

  2:42 PM / January 2, 2023

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