Big winds, blowing snow, subzero cold through Friday
Warming trend for the middle and later parts of next week
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Updated 12 p.m.
Snow will continue to fall Wednesday through early Thursday. It will also be very cold, with only subzero highs north and west to around 10 degrees in southeastern Minnesota. Gusty winds develop Thursday into Friday with blowing snow and dangerous wind chills.
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Snow will continue to fill in across Minnesota into western Wisconsin Wednesday morning. Expect snow to fall and accumulate into early Thursday.
Most of the accumulating snowfall will happen during the day Wednesday into the night with lighter snow showers Thursday.
High winds develop early Thursday with gusts of 20 to 40 mph. Winds continue to increase with the highest gusts on Friday up to 45 mph. Parts of the North Shore could see gusts over 50 mph Friday.
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The bitter cold, combined with the wind, will create dangerously cold wind chill values Thursday into Saturday. Here are forecast wind chill values early Thursday:
Friday morning will bring similarly dangerous wind chills:
Saturday will be bitterly cold with high temperatures below zero in northern and western Minnesota and barely above zero in southeastern Minnesota.
The snow and blowing snow will degrade travel across the region into at least late Friday. The National Weather Service has a great breakdown of impacts by time period:
Warming up after the weekend
Sunday afternoon, Christmas Day, will bring highs finally cracking 10 degrees above zero in southern Minnesota.
The models bring a warming trend for the middle and later parts of next week. Some models even get us near freezing!
