Snow showers develop Tuesday with more coming Thursday

Snow showers will develop Tuesday followed by colder air for Wednesday. Another system will bring more snowfall Thursday followed by even colder air Friday and Saturday. 

Snow showers Tuesday; cooler weather, more snow Thursday 

Snow showers will develop and fill in across southwestern Minnesota Tuesday and expand east across southern Minnesota, largely staying south of the Twin Cities area.

The bulk of the snow will be contained to southern Minnesota with pockets of lighter snow showers north.

We can expect a swath of up to 1 to 2, possible 3 inches of snow across portions of southwestern and south-central Minnesota with a sharp cut-off in totals north. 

There’s a winter weather advisory Tuesday for southwestern Minnesota in effect through 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Temperatures will be mostly in the 20s Tuesday, but will be colder Wednesday with highs in the teens to low 20s. We should also see some sunshine.

Another system moves through Thursday bringing the chance of more snow. Snow will develop late Wednesday night and wrap up Thursday evening. 

That system has the potential to produce more snow across a wider area of the state with more than several inches possible. 

There are still some questions on the precise track and also what the ratio of snow to water will be. If temperatures are colder, the ratio could be higher, allowing for greater accumulation.

Thursday’s snowfall is our best hope of a white Christmas across southern Minnesota. Regardless of what we see for snow, temperatures will be colder behind the system for Friday and Saturday.

Highs will return to the single digits and teens with subzero overnights in northern Minnesota.

By Monday and most of next week, it will be considerably milder with above freezing highs in southern Minnesota by Tuesday and Wednesday.