Weather and Climate News

Viewing update for Sunday night’s total lunar eclipse; Monday and Tuesday snow update
Tonight’s total lunar eclipse will be viewable all across North America, except where clouds obscure the view: This, from skyandtelescope.com: NPR’s Ian Stewart has a detailed discussion of the lunar eclipse, which includes this diagram from NASA: According to NASA: At 7:33 p.m. PST (10:33 p.m. EST), the edge of the Moon will begin entering the umbra. As…
Major storms -- and no pay for federal weather forecasters
Despite the shutdown, the National Weather Service is putting out forecasts and helping local officials prepare for dangerous weather, even as employees worry about making ends meet at home.
Arctic chill continues; Monday and Tuesday snow chances
Saturday night into Sunday will be very cold across Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Low temps Saturday night into early Sunday are expected reach the teens and 20s below zero over central and northern Minnesota: Wind chill temps are projected to be in the -40 to -50 range in much of northeastern Minnesota, prompting a wind…
A dip below zero!; recap of Friday snow totals plus the chilly weekend forecast
We finally did it! Shortly before 8 this Saturday morning, the temperature dipped below zero at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport: This sets a new record (Jan. 19) for the latest first sub-zero reading of winter in the Twin Cities. According to the Minnesota State Climatology Office, January 18 is the previous date of our latest first…
Snowstorm totals; the cold facts about this weekend
Friday’s snowstorm was memorable in much of southern Minnesota. Latest snowfall totals: 11" of snow was reported 5 miles west of Clarks Grove (north of Albert Lea). Photo attached. In addition, 10" of snow was reported in Sherburn (west of Fairmont). #mnwx pic.twitter.com/u95T6aY68n — NWS Twin Cities (@NWSTwinCities) January 19, 2019 Here are a few…
The first half of January has been warmer than usual across much of the state — with some places in southern Minnesota yet to see a subzero day. That's expected to change as early as this weekend.
Snowstorm continues Friday evening in southern Minn.; cold through the weekend
As expected, the heaviest snow Friday afternoon has been in southern Minnesota, missing the Twin Cities metro area. As of mid afternoon on Friday, 8 inches of snow were tallied in Pipestone and Fulda in southwestern Minnesota, Albert Lea of south-central Minnesota reported 4 inches of new snow, but 7 inches of snow had already fallen…