Winter storm warnings in northern Minnesota

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Our average Twin Cities high temp is 23 degrees this time of year. Parts of the metro area will reach the lower 30s Thursday afternoon. Highs will range from teens in far northern Minnesota to lower 30s in the far south:

Friday highs will be mainly in the teens, with 20s in southwestern and south-central Minnesota:

Parts of the Twin Cities area could touch 20.

Computer models show snow moving into far western Minnesota late Thursday evening, then spreading eastward overnight and Friday. 

The highest snow totals are expected in southwestern Minnesota and parts of west-central and south-central Minnesota:

Winter storm warnings (shaded pink in the graphic below) start at midnight Thursday night and continue through Friday evening in the areas most likely to see 6 or more inches of snow:

Blue shaded areas are winter storm watches for that same time period. 

Here are winter storm warning details for southwestern Minnesota:

Here are details of the winter storm watch that includes Mankato starting at midnight Thursday:

New model info will come in Thursday, but at this point, it looks like Twin Cities metro area snow totals Friday and Friday evening may be in the 2- to 5-inch range, with the highest totals in the west metro and lowest in the east metro. 

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News 

, and you can see updated weather info on the MPR News 

The Updraft blog will be updated around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, with a look at the weekend and the start of the coming week.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Ron Trenda

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Thursday will be another mild day, then wintry weather returns on Friday. We have the updated snow forecast for Friday.

Mild Thursday; winter storm hits Minnesota on Friday

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