Storms start to move out of Minnesota, continue for western Wisconsin

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Our late fall and partly wintry weather system swirls through Minnesota through Friday. 

The system is delivering widespread rain to Minnesota, and that rain will change to snow overnight and Thursday across northwest and north-central Minnesota. 

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GFS model shows the low-pressure center tracking through Iowa toward the western end of Lake Superior, then looping back through northern Minnesota into Wisconsin between Wednesday evening and Friday morning. Note the change from rain (green) to snow (blue) across northern Minnesota. 

Winter storm watches are posted across much of northern Minnesota. Here’s the watch zone from the 

Grand Forks National Weather Service office

And here’s the watch zone (and gale warnings) from the 

The latest forecast model runs still suggest heavy snowfall across northern Minnesota. Here’s the latest NOAA GFS snowfall output. 

Melting and compaction of snow may reduce these totals a bit, but some prolific snowfall over a foot looks likely in Ontario Canada, and totals could reach double-digits in parts of northern Minnesota near the Canadian border. 

Paul Huttner

Author

The system is delivering widespread rain to Minnesota, and that rain will change to snow overnight and Thursday across northwest and north-central Minnesota.

Chris Juhn for MPR News

Widespread rain changing to snow up north. Winter storm ramps up.

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