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Updraft® - Minnesota Weather News
Bill Endersen

Flurries ending this morning, continued breezy

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Our impressive winter storm is winding down as it moves off to the east this morning. Some patchy bands of light snow will diminish to flurries and end this morning.

• Follow live updates: Minnesota digs out from hefty storm

Feb 3 - radar
Patchy light snow is tapering to flurries. Twin Cities NWS radar shortly before 7 a.m.

The storm certainly exceeded expectations in the Twin Cities area. The cause was mostly an enhanced band of heavy snow that intensified mainly over the central and southern metro Tuesday afternoon.

Reports I have seen so far this morning indicate that around 8 to 10 inches fell on the far western and northern suburbs of the metro area while as much as 12 to 13 inches fell on the south and eastern sides from Prior Lake and Burnsville to Lakeville and over to Oakdale in Washington County. Minneapolis and St. Paul proper likely picked up approximately 10 inches overall.

Those numbers are my estimates and might change a bit as more weather observers take readings. I measured 11 inches in my Minneapolis driveway at 7 a.m.

Few snowfall reports have come in from windswept southern Minnesota.

Snowfall is notoriously difficult to measure accurately when the wind blows.

While this was a fluffy snow that blew and drifted easily, the good news is that it will be fairly light on your shovel.

Blizzard and winter storm warnings that had been in effect overnight have been allowed to expire. A winter weather advisory has been issued for south central and part of southwestern Minnesota for this morning because of continued patchy blowing and drifting.

Feb 3 - w wx adv
A winter weather advisory for parts of southern Minnesota this morning. Twin Cities National Weather Service

Winds will diminish gradually today from west to east. Highs will range from the mid teens in northern Minnesota to just the low 20s in the south. Some sunshine should break through the clouds this afternoon.

Feb 3 - mpx wx story
Today's weather story from the Twin Cities National Weather Service.

The cold front leading this storm will bring significant rain to the East Coast states today. Even overnight thunderstorms have been dropping heavy rain and causing flash flooding in the Southeast.

Feb 3 - ltng
Early-morning lightning. Vaisala

Looking ahead, a couple Alberta clippers are headed our way. The first one will come through tonight and tomorrow. The second one is scheduled for Friday. Neither one will drop much snow.

Feb 3 - Friday fcst map
Forecast map for Friday with a chance of some light snow. NWS Weather Prediction Center

The short version of the extended outlook is that the weekend should be mild but next week will be cold, especially Tuesday and Wednesday.