The winter storm that dropped more than 8 inches of snow in Minnesota on Dec. 19 ensured a white Christmas, but it’ll be a brown New Year in the Twin Cities.
More than an inch of rain fell in the metro area during Friday’s weather system, which on most other years would have dropped snow instead, only for temperatures to remain stubbornly above freezing.
It has meant that the snow that lined Twin Cities neighborhoods over Christmas has now all-but-disappeared, with the latest figures from the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow network (CoCoRaHS) showing recordings in excess of an inch of rain in Richfield, South St. Paul and Minnetonka.
Saturday morning also brought another dose of dense fog that has persisted across Minnesota since Christmas Eve, with the National Weather Service saying will remain in place particularly in west-central Minnesota, though should gradually lift further east on Saturday.
However, another round of dense fog is expected to return Saturday night into Sunday morning.