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MINNEAPOLIS -- Tuesday is simply a NEXT Weather Alert time owed to a high-impact snowfall lawsuit that could impact some the greeting and evening commutes successful the Twin Cities.
As of 5 a.m., snowfall was already falling successful southwestern and southbound cardinal Minnesota. The tempest was expected to marque its mode to the metro earlier the greeting commute.
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A wintertime tempest informing is successful effect for areas stretching from Mankato done the Twin Cities and into Wisconsin. That set could spot anyplace betwixt 4 and 8 inches successful total.
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A wintertime upwind advisory is successful effect for different parts of cardinal and confederate Minnesota, arsenic good arsenic occidental Wisconsin.
Southeastern Minnesota could spot a wintry mix.
The snowfall was expected to determination retired of Minnesota aft the evening commute.
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The metro had already reached its precocious somesthesia successful the greeting hours, and it'll lone get colder passim the day. Wednesday volition besides beryllium chilly, and rather windy.
Temperatures volition rebound connected Friday and immoderate of the snowfall volition melt, but we'll person different acold drawback implicit the weekend.
Our adjacent changeable astatine snowfall comes aboriginal adjacent week.
How does MnDOT cognize however to pre-treat roads?
The Minnesota Department of Transportation had plows retired pre-treating the roads up of Tuesday's snowfall.
But however bash they marque those important decisions -- whether to usage brackish oregon brine, and which roads to dainty and how?
WCCO's Pauleen Le stepped into 1 of their plows to spot firsthand the exertion and the thought process down making those decisions. Click present for the afloat story.
NEXT Drive Alert: 6:30 a.m. update
Crashes are starting to popular up connected metro roads arsenic snowfall snarls the greeting commute.
Check schoolhouse closings and delays
Tuesday's snowfall could interaction your child's schoolhouse schedule. To cheque the latest closings and delays, click here.
5:48 AMNEXT Drive Alert: 5:30 a.m. roadworthy conditions update
In summation to the NEXT Weather Alert, we've issued a NEXT Drive Alert owed to Tuesday morning's snowfall. Reporters Pauleen Le and Beret Leone are some tracking roadworthy conditions successful assorted parts of the metro and state.
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