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The season’s first significant winter storm has arrived. Snowfall spread across Minnesota on schedule Tuesday. Snowfall intensity will pick up as we move through the afternoon hours. The Twin Cities National Weather Service office has upgraded the greater Twin Cities area to a 

The heaviest part of the storm moves through the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota this afternoon. Snowfall rates in the heaviest snow bands will reach an inch per hour. 

NOAA’s NAM 3 km resolution model shows the snow zone, with deeper blues depicting heavier snowfall rates this afternoon. Snow will taper off in the Twin Cities late Tuesday evening. Snow will taper off in northeast Minnesota after midnight.

Much of central and southern Minnesota will pick up 3 to 6 inches of snow by late tonight. But a core of heavier snow is setting up from the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota through the greater Twin Cities area. This morning’s forecast model runs crank out more than 6 inches, to as much as 9 inches locally across parts of the Twin Cities.

Expect snowfall rates to reach 1 inch per hour this afternoon in many areas. Roads will become slippery across much of central and southern Minnesota and afternoon rush hours look challenging for the Twin Cities.

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Paul Huttner

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The season’s first major winter storm is here. The heaviest part of the storm moves through the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota this afternoon. Snowfall rates in the heaviest snow bands will reach an inch per hour. 

Cars cruise through blowing snow on Interstate 394.

Twin Cities upgraded to winter storm warning

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