Frigid temperatures this weekend prompt cold weather advisories

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Bright colors are lighting up the weather maps across northern Minnesota. Take your pick of red, pink, blue, or fuchsia. That’s your winter weather type.

Blizzard warnings continue overnight for northwestern Minnesota and the Red River Valley. 

Winter storm warnings ride the southern end of the blizzard zone. 

Winter weather advisories run just below that.

And how about an ice storm warning for good measure?

In the Twin Cities and most of central and southern Minnesota precipitation has been all rain. The heaviest rain bands set up north of the Twin Cities, as modeled Wednesday.

Here are some select rainfall totals across Minnesota. Some of these are reports from earlier Thursday, so final storm total reports may be higher in many locations. 

Snow flurries may fly in the Twin Cities in the next couple of days. Temperatures in the Twin Cities crashed behind the cold front from 67 degrees before noon Thursday into the upper 30s by late afternoon.

That’s a 28-degree drop in about 6 hours!

High temperatures through the weekend and into most of next week will hover in the 20s north and 30s south for Minnesota.

The forecast models hint at some light snow possible around the Twin Cities next Monday into Tuesday.

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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News

Paul Huttner

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A significant wintry November storm is blasting our state, and it looks like the cold is here to stay. 

Grand Forks, N.D., National Weather Service office

Snowfall projection for northwest Minnesota 

Heavy snow, ice, wind rage across northern Minnesota; temps crash

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