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Rain showers at times for the metro, heavy snow parts of western and northern Minnesota today

Metro snow Monday and Monday night

Here’s a quick morning update…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from this morning through Monday evening:

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Simulated radar Sunday morning through Monday evening
NOAA, via Tropicaltidbits.com

The Twin Cities metro area and points to the south and east will see scattered rain showers today. Snow continues today in much of northern Minnesota and western Minnesota.

Here are potential snow totals today and tonight:

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Snow forecast
National Weather Service

Winter storm warnings continue in the heavy snow area today. There may be a wintry mix around the southeastern fringe of the heavy snow.

Northeastern Minnesota could see snow totals like this today and tonight:

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Snow forecast today and tonight
National Weather Service

Northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin could see snow totals like this Monday into early Tuesday:

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Snow forecast Monday and Monday night
National Weather Service

The Twin Cities metro area has the potential for 3 to 5 inches of snow Monday into Monday night, and a winter weather advisory starts in the metro area at midnight tonight and runs until 6 a.m. Tuesday.

Updates on the winter storm will be posted by the NWS offices in the Twin Cities, Duluth, Grand Forks, La Crosse and Sioux Falls.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation will have updated road conditions. Wisconsin road conditions can be found here.

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR network, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

Temperature trends

Sunday highs range from 20s northwest to 40s southeast:

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Sunday forecast highs
National Weather Service

Programming note

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:35 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.