Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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There’s great news for Twin Cities residents who didn’t want to shovel or drive through sloppy snow Wednesday. 

Tuesday’s morning into midday forecast model runs have completed the southward storm track shift that the European model latched onto in previous days. And it’s not just NOAA’s often shaky GFS model. The bulk of the suite of U.S. forecast models have advertised a more northward storms track in previous days that would have brought heavy snow to the Twin Cities. 

But Tuesday’s model runs appear decisive that the bulk of heavy snow will fall south of the greater Twin Cities across northern Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and central Wisconsin. 

NOAA’s 12Z HRRR model run is typical of those that paint the snow zone across southeast Minnesota and keep most of the snow south of the greater Twin Cities. The forecast model loop below runs between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Forecast high temperature will hover above freezing across most of Minnesota so any snow that falls will have a hard time accumulating except under the most intense snow bands across southeast Minnesota.

Winter storms warnings have been dropped for the greater Twin Cities Wednesday. But 

 remain in effect for much of southern Minnesota Wednesday.

Travel across southeast Minnesota, I-94 to Madison, and I-35 to Des Moines will be difficult Wednesday.

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Paul Huttner

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Forecast models show a significant southward storm track shift. Little if any snow for much of the Twin Cities Wednesday.

Storm shifts south; little snow for Twin Cities but blizzard warnings south of MSP

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