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Sunshine Tuesday morning will be replaced by cloud cover and snow showers by late Tuesday into Wednesday. We’re then briefly cooler Thursday before warming back up. We’ll see several days of drier and calmer weather after Wednesday.

What a mess. We received another 0.48 inches of rainfall Monday in the Twin Cities officially. The St. Anthony dam received 0.60 inches. It was our third such significant rainfall event of this winter.

The other rainfalls were February 14-15, and January 16. Each saw more than a quarter inch of rainfall. The three events combined come to almost 1.50 inches of water, that would have been at least 15 to 20 inches of additional snowfall. Considering we’ve received 71 inches of snowfall this season, and the record most snowfall in an entire season is 98.6 inches in 1983-1984, that’s a significant figure.

Northern Minnesota into northwest Wisconsin picked up several inches of snow. French River saw six inches.

It’s been a mild but wet and snowy winter and that’s how we’ll end it tonight. Snow showers will push into far western Minnesota by late Tuesday afternoon and evening. Eastern Minnesota can expect snow showers by about 8 to 10 p.m. late Tuesday evening. We’ll have on and off snow showers into Wednesday.

Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings go into effect late Tuesday into Wednesday across much of central Minnesota.

The official forecast calls for 2 to 4 inches in the Twin Cities with the highest amounts in west central Minnesota at up to 4 to 7 inches.

Many models are producing significantly less snow on the southern edge so be prepared that we may see a lower end 1 to 2 inches in the Twin Cities.

After Wednesday we’re in for a dry and quiet stretch finally. Both the European and American models produce very little precipitation across Minnesota Thursday through Sunday.

We’ll see temperatures near or above normal through the weekend too, in the 20s (north) and 30s (south) primarily.

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Sunshine Tuesday morning will be replaced by cloud cover and snow showers by late Tuesday into Wednesday. We’re then briefly cooler Thursday before warming back up. We’ll see several days of drier and calmer weather after Wednesday.


Enjoy a few hours of sunshine Tuesday. Clouds race back in with snow developing later in the day Tuesday into Wednesday. We’ll be briefly cooler Thursday before milder air returns Friday.

More snow on the way Tuesday night into Wednesday then quieter

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