Winter storm moves across Midwest, Minnesota braces for snow - KSTP

The engaged extremity of 2022 continues into the commencement of 2023, arsenic different wintertime tempest is moving crossed the Midwest. Snow is apt crossed the Twin Cities Monday nighttime done Tuesday. Ice accumulations are apt southbound of the metro done the I-90 corridor.

WARNINGS

A Winter Storm Warning is successful effect from southwest Minnesota done the Twin Cities metro, and into occidental Wisconsin. This begins Monday day and continues done Tuesday evening. An Ice Storm Warning is successful effect successful confederate Minnesota from Monday day done Tuesday evening. A fewer counties successful cardinal Minnesota and occidental Wisconsin are nether a Winter Weather Advisory Monday evening done Tuesday evening.

TIMELINE

Some scattered snowfall showers are imaginable connected Monday afternoon, chiefly from the Twin Cities to the south. In confederate Minnesota, determination could beryllium immoderate freezing drizzle mixing with the snow. Any precipitation would beryllium precise airy done astir 6:00 p.m. Monday.

Starting Monday evening, snowfall volition go wide successful the Winter Storm Warning done Monday night. This is besides erstwhile freezing rainfall is apt on the I-90 corridor. Most crystal accumulations volition beryllium betwixt sunset Monday and sunrise Tuesday.

Heavy snowfall is apt successful the Twin Cities metro Tuesday morning, past taper to lighter snowfall successful the afternoon. On and disconnected airy snowfall showers proceed Tuesday night, yet coming to an extremity Wednesday morning.

SNOW AND ICE TOTALS

The heaviest snowfall is apt from southwest Minnesota into the westbound metro. 8 to 12 inches are imaginable successful these areas. The southbound and eastbound metro totals could beryllium anyplace from 4 to 8 inches. Any freezing rainfall mixing successful could support snowfall totals connected the little extremity of that range. There volition beryllium a crisp cut-off connected the northbound and southbound broadside of the heaviest snow. Totals could beryllium implicit 8 inches successful St. Cloud, past lone an inch oregon 2 astir Brainerd.

Ice accumulations could beryllium important successful parts of confederate Minnesota. Up to 0.25″ of crystal is imaginable from Owatonna to Rochester, southbound into Iowa. As always, crystal tin marque driving precise hard to unsafe astatine times, but it tin besides origin powerfulness outages. If you are successful the Ice Storm Warning, support this successful caput arsenic you hole for the storm.

WHAT COULD STILL CHANGE?

The forecast assurance is precocious for dense snowfall successful southwest Minnesota. There is besides precocious assurance successful crystal accumulations person to the I-90 corridor. The hard portion of this forecast is wherever the alteration from freezing rainfall to snowfall volition happen. This is wherefore snowfall totals successful the Twin Cities could inactive alteration arsenic we get person to Tuesday. Regardless, immoderate operation of snowfall and crystal volition inactive beryllium disruptive Monday nighttime done Tuesday.

HOW TO PREPARE

Start reasoning astir limiting question connected Tuesday, particularly if you were readying connected driving done confederate oregon southwestern Minnesota. If you person an assignment scheduled, see rescheduling. Even skilled wintertime drivers would person problems with this overmuch ice.

Parents, person a program if kids request to enactment location from schoolhouse connected Tuesday.

If you person the clip connected Monday, marque definite you person state for the snowblower, and that you person capable soil and/or salt.

FORECAST UPDATES

Minnesota’s Weather Authority volition proceed to update the forecast earlier the tempest connected Monday and volition instrumentality you done it connected Tuesday. You tin ever get the latest updates connected KSTP.com and the KSTP Mobile App.

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