Blizzard warnings in Northwest Minnesota, winter weather advisories across the state

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We’ll enjoy beautiful winter weather Sunday with plenty of sunshine. Afternoon highs will reach the 30s across most of Minnesota and western Wisconsin. Some spots in far northwestern and northeastern Minnesota will have highs in the 20s.

A low pressure system will spread precipitation into southern, central and eastern Minnesota and much of Wisconsin overnight Sunday night, with precipitation continuing on Monday.

The precipitation will begin as rain in many areas, with freezing rain at locations that have cold enough surface temperatures. Some locations will see a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow. Periods of rain, freezing rain and snow Monday morning are expected to transition to mainly snow as we go through Monday afternoon.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 9 p.m. Sunday to 9 p.m. Monday:

Here’s the potential for periods of freezing rain overnight and into Monday:

Here’s the ice (freezing rain) potential in northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin:

Parts of northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin are likely to see several inches of snow Monday into Monday evening:

Here are potential snow totals elsewhere in Minnesota and western Wisconsin:

Winter storm warnings for ice (freezing rain) begin at midnight Sunday night and continue until 6 p.m. Monday in several Wisconsin counties. Winter weather advisories are posted for portions of central Minnesota and for parts of the north and east metro:

Here’s an overview of the storm, plus details of the advisories in central Minnesota and parts of the metro area:

There’s a lower chance of freezing rain in the central and southern parts of the Twin Cities metro, so there are no advisories for those areas.

Here are details of the winter storm warning for ice plus some snow that begins at midnight in several western Wisconsin counties:

Winter storm watches for snow and ice have been posted for late Sunday night and Monday for the southern part of Aitkin County plus Pine County and much of northwestern Wisconsin.  Cook County and Lake County of northeastern Minnesota are in a winter storm watch Monday and Monday evening for snow and ice.

You can find updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News 

The average Twin Cities high temperature is 33 degrees this time of year. Metro area highs are expected to reach the upper 30s on Monday.

Most of Minnesota will have Monday highs in the 30s:

There’ll be a few upper 20s in parts of northeastern Minnesota.

Tuesday highs will reach the 30s in most areas, with 20s in west-central and northwestern Minnesota:

Twin Cities metro area highs are projected to reach the mid 30s Tuesday, then around 30 degrees on Wednesday, followed by highs in the upper 20s Thursday and lower 30s on Friday.

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 a.m., 9:35 a.m. and 4:39 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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Ron Trenda

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After a beautiful Sunday, some rain, freezing rain and snow are headed to Minnesota and western Wisconsin later tonight and Monday. We have an update.

A pleasant Sunday; Periods of rain, ice and snow late Sunday night and Monday

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