Snow mainly northern Minnesota Monday; major winter storm Tuesday through Thursday
An Alberta clipper weather system will spread several inches of snow across mainly the northern half of Minnesota on Monday. A winter weather advisory is in effect for that part of the state.
The Twin Cities will get a dusting of light snow in the morning and have an afternoon high temperature near 36. Winds will increase from the southwest and become northwest late in the day.
Major winter storm
The big story this week will be the major winter storm forecast to arrive in Minnesota on Tuesday and persist into Thursday.
This will be a prolonged storm that will cause significant travel problems and other disruptions.
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The winter storm watch indicated below begins from west to east on Tuesday and continues well into Thursday. It also extends farther north into much of the area now covered by Monday’s winter weather advisory.
As of early this Monday morning, confidence is high that much of central and southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin will pick up at least a foot of snow by Thursday.
The National Weather Service will upgrade their winter storm watches to a winter storm warning package Monday afternoon after the high resolution short term models get extended into the storm time.
Turning briefly colder
Colder air will arrive on Thursday but will last for just a couple days.
