Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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We didn’t see any measurable snow at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport during the first 11 days of January 2020. We’ll see several batches of snow over the next few days,

Let’s start with the snow up north. Lake-effect snow totals of 5 to 7 inches were reported near Superior, Wisconsin, from Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening.  Some 2 to 4 inch totals were reported along the North Shore of Lake Superior late Saturday into early Sunday. Additional snow is expected today:

A winter storm warning continues until 4 p.m. this Sunday along portions of the North Shore of Lake Superior:

Northeastern Minnesota snow reports will be posted 

Snow will move into southern Minnesota Sunday afternoon and spread northeastward through the late afternoon and evening hours. It looks like the snow will arrive in the Twin Cities metro area in the mid-to-late afternoon hours and continue Sunday evening, with an inch or two of accumulation possible. Some spots in south-central and southeastern Minnesota could see around three inches of snow.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern Sunday afternoon through Sunday night:

Here are possible snow totals Sunday afternoon through Sunday night, via the Twin Cities NWS office:

The winter weather advisory starts at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon and continues until midnight across portions of southern Minnesota.

Updates on the snow can be found on the Twin Cities NWS 

You can hear updated weather information on the MPR 

, and you’ll see updated weather info on the MPR News 

Another batch of snow moves through much of Minnesota and western Wisconsin Monday evening into early Tuesday. NOAA’s North American Mesoscale forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern Monday evening through Tuesday morning:

We’ll also have a chance of snow on Wednesday and there’s the possibility of a plowable snow on Friday.  Stay tuned.

Sunday highs will be mainly in the teens over northern and central Minnesota, with some lower 20s in the Twin Cities metro area, parts of southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Monday highs will be mainly in the 20s, with some lower 30s in the Twin Cities metro area and points to the southeast and east:

Our Twin Cities high on Tuesday is projected to be around 30 degrees early in the day, with temps falling through the 20s the rest of the day. We top out in the upper teens on Wednesday and around 10 degrees on Thursday, followed by a high in the mid 20s Friday. Our coldest morning in the Twin Cities is expected to be Thursday morning, with a low around -6.  Lows in the teens below zero and 20s below zero are possible in northern Minnesota and parts of central Minnesota early Thursday morning.

Though Saturday, our 2019-2020 snow-season total stood at 25.6 inches at MSP airport. At this point in our snow season last year, MSP airport had tallied only 11 inches of snow, but the Twin Cities still ended up with 77.1 inches of snow for the 2018-2019 snow season…39 inches of that total was recorded in February.

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.

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