Strong winds early Friday will calm into the afternoon in Minnesota as we await an incoming winter storm over the weekend.
Snow will continue to wrap up across Minnesota’s Arrowhead Friday morning, but wind takes a little longer to calm with a few gusts up to 30 mph still possible.
As of 9 a.m., Xcel Energy is reporting more than 19,000 customers are without power in the Twin Cities. Outages extend past the metro area, too, with hundreds of customers in Steele, Waseca and Freeborn counties…