Light snow and dense fog into Thursday

Milder air is here, but so is moisture

Light snow and dense fog blanket areas of the Upper Midwest into Thursday. A dense fog advisory covers much of southern and central Minnesota.

Advisories
Advisories
Twin Cities National Weather Service

Including the cities of Alexandria, Long Prairie, Little Falls, Princeton, Mora, Morris, Glenwood, St Cloud, Foley, Elk River, Cambridge, Madison, Benson, Montevideo, Willmar, Litchfield, Monticello, Granite Falls, Olivia, Hutchinson, Gaylord, Redwood Falls, New Ulm, St Peter, Le Sueur, Faribault, St James, Mankato, Waseca, Owatonna, Fairmont, Blue Earth, and Albert Lea

349 PM CST Wed Jan 22 2020 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CST THURSDAY...

* WHAT...Visibility one quarter to one half mile in dense fog.

* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, south central, southwest and west central Minnesota. * WHEN...From 9 PM this evening to 9 AM CST Thursday.

* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of you.

Light snow

Light snow has been falling since early Wednesday across southeast Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Freezing rain fell before that in some areas.

NOAA’s North American Mesoscale Forecast System 3 km model paints areas of light snow across Wisconsin and Minnesota through Thursday. We may see some flakes in the Twin Cities, but little accumulation is expected.

NOAA NAM 3 km model through Thursday
NOAA NAM 3 km model through Thursday
NOAA via tropical tidbits

Temperatures remain mild through most of next week.

Temperature forecast for Minneapolis
Temperature forecast for Minneapolis
NOAA via Weather Bell

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