Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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The majority of snowfall accumulation is done but we’ll see an additional 1 to 2 inches, even 3 for some areas through the morning and midday Thursday. Light snow showers will diminish through the afternoon with cooler temperatures Friday moving in.

Snow showers continue through the morning with some additional accumulation. They’ll taper to more light, scattered snow showers Thursday afternoon.

Here’s a look at additional snowfall totals 8 a.m. through 6 p.m. Thursday on top of what’s fallen already:

Winds will be breezy but not too terrible. Sustained wind speeds will be about 10-20 mph from the north-northwest with gusts of 20 to 30 mph in some places in southern Minnesota.

As expected, snow totals so far are heaviest across southeastern Minnesota where several places have reached 6 inches.

The highest totals out of this latest winter storm stretched from Nebraska into Iowa:

Twin Cities totals generally were between 1 to 3 inches so far with some 4 inch amounts in the southern suburbs.

Temperatures dip behind the storm for Friday and the weekend but will remain near or slightly above normal. Lows Thursday night will drop mostly into the teens with some single digits in far northern Minnesota.

High temperatures Friday afternoon will be mainly in the 20s with a few teens in northeastern Minnesota. We could see some peeks of sunshine too.

A clipper system moves through Minnesota Sunday night into Monday bringing some additional light snow showers. 

Late next week likely brings some colder air, perhaps the coldest we’ve seen in this mild month of January, which has been very mild so far. Most models agree on below-normal temperatures late next week to end January.

Will the cold be enough to push temperatures below zero in the Twin Cities? We haven’t been below zero this whole month of January. We did so six times in December. 

Only three other Januarys (2021, 2006 and 1990) have not had any nights below zero. That had never happened in the Twin Cities prior to 1990.

The winter of 2022-2023 certainly has been very interesting and wild so far! 

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The majority of snowfall accumulation is done but we’ll see an additional 1 to 2 inches, even 3 for some areas through the morning and midday Thursday. Light snow showers will diminish through the afternoon with cooler temperatures Friday moving in.


Snow begins to wind down Thursday; cooler Friday into the weekend

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