Updraft®

Another October snowstorm delivers impressive snowfall totals.

Smoke particles from Colorado wildfires turned Minnesota’s snow orange and yellow Thursday.

We have an update on the heavy snow in parts of central and northern Minnesota and the wintry mix in the Twin Cities metro area. We also look at the snow that’s in our weekend forecast.

A strong storm hits Minnesota Thursday with rain, sleet and areas of heavy snow.  Then another round of snow and even colder temperatures move in over the weekend.

A strong storm is expected to bring parts of Minnesota up to 8 inches of snow Thursday, making for difficult travel around the state.

By 7 a.m. Thursday, the snowy swath reaches into central Minnesota. By lunchtime, it’s snowing around Duluth. A wintry mix is possible in the Twin Cities, but the trend is for mostly rain in the Twin Cities and southern Minnesota by afternoon.

Our next wintry-weather-maker arrives Thursday. This one focuses on central Minnesota.

After record-setting snowfall Tuesday, another snowstorm is targeting Minnesota with heavy snow again on Thursday. 

About 8 inches fell in the Twin Cities Tuesday — the second highest October daily snowfall ever recorded in the metro area, topped only by the Halloween blizzard of 1991 (yes, we have to mention the Halloween blizzard). It’ll be a relatively quiet Wednesday, with only isolated precipitation chances. Thursday: The snow returns in northern Minnesota.

Many locations from St. Cloud through southern Minnesota including the Twin Cities picked up more than 6 inches of snow.