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Weather and Climate News
Andrew Krueger
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Dangerous cold across Minnesota leads to more school delays for Wednesday

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Ice-covered rock formations emerge from the frigid waters of Lake Superior at Gooseberry Falls State Park on Monday near Two Harbors, Minn. The subzero temperatures created dramatic frozen landscapes along the shoreline.
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Some Minnesota school districts have announced they’ll be starting classes late or moving to online learning on Wednesday, Feb. 19, as a stretch of dangerously cold conditions continues across the region.

That’s after most school districts across the state delayed or canceled classes — or moved to online learning — on Tuesday.

Extreme cold warnings and cold weather advisories are in place again for late Tuesday into early Wednesday. Wind chills overnight are forecast to drop into the 20s, 30s and 40s below zero.

Find forecast updates on MPR Weather’s Updraft blog.

School delays, closures

School districts with weather-related delays or closures Wednesday in Minnesota and neighboring states include:

E-learning day

  • Brandon-Evansville

Two-hour delay

  • Adrian

  • Albany

  • Alexandria

  • Annandale

  • Ashby

  • Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City

  • Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa

  • Benson

  • Blue Earth Area

  • Breckenridge

  • Browns Valley

  • Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart

  • Butterfield-Odin

  • Canby

  • Cedar Mountain

  • Central Public Schools (Norwood Young America)

  • Cleveland

  • Comfrey

  • Dassel-Cokato

  • Eden Valley-Watkins

  • Edgerton

  • Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop

  • Hendricks

  • Heron Lake-Okabena

  • Holdingford

  • Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted

  • Hudson, Wis.

  • Hutchinson

  • Ivanhoe

  • Jackson County Central

  • Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton

  • Kimball Area

  • Lac qui Parle Valley

  • Lake Benton (90-minute delay)

  • Lakeview

  • Lester Prairie

  • Litchfield

  • Lynd

  • MACCRAY

  • Mankato Area

  • Maple Lake

  • Maple River

  • Marshall

  • Martin County West

  • Minneota

  • Minnewaska Area

  • Montevideo

  • Morris Area

  • Mountain Lake

  • Murray County Central

  • New London-Spicer

  • New Ulm

  • Nicollet

  • Onamia

  • Ortonville

  • Osakis

  • Parkers Prairie

  • Paynesville Area

  • Prescott, Wis.

  • Red Rock Central

  • Renville County West

  • Rothsay

  • Round Lake-Brewster

  • Russell-Tyler-Ruthton

  • St. Clair

  • St. Peter

  • Sibley East

  • Sleepy Eye

  • Springfield

  • Swanville

  • Tracy Area

  • Underwood

  • United South Central

  • University of Wisconsin-Superior (opening at 10 a.m.)

  • Waseca

  • Watertown-Mayer

  • West Central Area

  • Wheaton

  • Willmar

  • Windom

  • Worthington

  • Yellow Medicine East

This list will be updated as additional delays and closings are reported. If you don’t see your school listed here, check with your district for updates.