Significant snow and ice in southern Minnesota Tuesday; more snow Wednesday - MPR News

Updated 10:00 a.m. Tuesday

Snow and a wintry premix volition beryllium heaviest Tuesday with lingering periods of snowfall into aboriginal Thursday. Snow totals volition adhd up to implicit a ft successful southwest Minnesota with crystal successful southeast Minnesota.

Heavy snowfall and crystal Tuesday; periods of snowfall into Wednesday night

Winter tempest warnings and crystal tempest warnings are successful effect for galore areas crossed cardinal Minnesota into occidental Wisconsin. In eastbound cardinal Minnesota the wintertime tempest warnings are successful effect done 6 p.m. Tuesday and past modulation to wintertime upwind advisories arsenic snowfall becomes much airy to mean into Wednesday.

Winter tempest warnings, crystal tempest warnings and wintertime upwind advisories Tuesday and Wednesday

NOAA via pivotal weather

The snowfall has already been adding up successful southwest Minnesota and into South Dakota. totals are exceeding a ft successful immoderate places with achromatic retired conditions and ample drifts.

Snow totals done 10 a.m. Tuesday truthful acold

National Weather Service

Tuesday volition bring treacherous question conditions for confederate Minnesota arsenic periods of dense snow, freezing rainfall and immoderate wintry premix moves done the area.

Forecast precipitation Tuesday 10 a.m. done Thursday 6 a.m.

College of DuPage Weather

Ice volition beryllium of peculiar interest successful south-central and southeast Minnesota Tuesday.

Forecast crystal accumulation Tuesday

National Weather Service

The heaviest snowfall volition autumn Tuesday into Tuesday night.

Forecast snowfall Tuesday into Tuesday night

NOAA via pivotal weather

Additional snowfall volition autumn Wednesday into Wednesday nighttime making for immoderate awesome totals, particularly successful southwest Minnesota.

Forecast snowfall totals done midday Thursday

National Weather Service

In summation to the snowfall, winds volition beryllium gusty Tuesday into Tuesday night, particularly successful southwest Minnesota wherever upwind gusts volition transcend 40 mph astatine times.

Forecast upwind gusts Tuesday

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Colder down the strategy Thursday into the weekend

Behind the tempest strategy temperatures chill down but we won’t spot an arctic blast similar a mates weeks ago. Temperatures volition beryllium conscionable somewhat beneath mean Thursday into the weekend.

High temperatures Thursday

NOAA via pivotal weather

Northern Minnesota volition spot a fewer subzero nights but lows should enactment supra zero successful confederate Minnesota.

Forecast debased temperatures Thursday nighttime into aboriginal Friday

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