Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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There are a few stray snow showers in southeastern Minnesota early Saturday morning. Those snow showers will move away in a few hours.

Another batch of snow moves into western Minnesota Saturday afternoon, then spreads into eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin Saturday evening.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from noon Saturday to 6 a.m. on Sunday:

The snow is expected to hold off until after sunset in the Twin Cities, where we could see between 1 and 2 inches of snow Saturday evening.

Forecast snow amounts are highest in southern Minnesota later today and this evening:

A winter weather advisory starts at noon in Marshall and at 3 p.m. in Mankato and Albert Lea:

The advisories continue until midnight Saturday night.

Here are details of the advisory in south-central Minnesota:

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 

Most areas have already seen their Saturday high temp. It was 24 degrees around 1 a.m. in the Twin Cities, and we have fallen through the teens this morning. Parts of the metro area could rebound to about 14 degrees at some point this afternoon.  Here are forecast temps for 3 p.m. Saturday:

This Updraft blog will be updated around 10:15 a.m. with your Sunday forecast plus a look at the week ahead.

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday.

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Ron Trenda

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Another batch of snow is headed our way. We have the latest on the timing and snow amounts.

Snow starts Saturday afternoon in western Minn., holds off until evening in the east

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