Winter storm warnings in northern Minnesota

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Minnesota has plenty of snow so far this season with lots of water locked up in the snow pack. Temperatures will remain cool in the weekend with more freezing fog Friday night. It’s milder again next week.

We’ve seen a lot of snow for many parts of Minnesota so far this season. In the Twin Cities we’re experiencing our third snowiest season to date at 48.3 inches (normal to date is 20.8 inches). In case you’re curious of the top seasonal snowfalls, here they are:

From the Twin Cities to Duluth and up the North Shore, we’ve all seen lots of snow. Duluth’s seasonal total is up to 68.1 inches (normal to date is 38.5 inches).

The resulting snow pack is impressive with a good chunk of Minnesota seeing over a foot of snow on the ground.

In that snow pack is quite a bit of water too thanks to the unusually high water content of some of these storms. Across the Twin Cities area, our 16 inches of snow pack has about 2 to 4 inches of water in it if we melted it down. Around the North Shore, that water content ranges from 4 to 8 inches in some places! Of course the water content in the snow pack becomes very relevant as we approach spring flooding season.

Cool weekend followed by milder temperatures next week

It was a cold morning across portions of Minnesota early Friday. Several places slipped below zero with even some teens below zero in northern Minnesota.

High temperatures Friday will be mainly in the teens to around 20.

Overnight, lows will slip back into the single digits with some subzero readings once again under mainly clear skies.

We still have a lot of moisture in the lower atmosphere from the recent snowfall so freezing fog will again be possible.

High temperatures Saturday will be back in the teens to around 20 with more sunshine after the morning fog burns off.

Into next week temperatures are back above normal in the 20s and even some low 30s. We’ll continue to watch a possible late week storm system but the trends right now are to push that system south of Minnesota.

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Minnesota has plenty of snow so far this season with lots of water locked up in the snow pack. Temperatures will remain cool in the weekend with more freezing fog Friday night. It’s milder again next week.


Snow pack and seasonal snowfall; cool weekend but milder next week

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