While the heaviest snow has already fallen, blizzard conditions will continue into Sunday night as powerful winds blow around the fresh snowpack. Snowfall is expected to finally wrap up late tonight.
Blizzard conditions continue; chilly start to the work week
Snowfall totals continue to stack up across southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin as this powerful weekend winter storm moves through the region.
The hardest-hit area from the storm has fallen roughly 50 to 75 miles south and east of the Twin Cities, stretching from near Rochester through the Mississippi River Valley and into western Wisconsin. Many communities have already exceeded 12 inches of snow, with some locations reporting totals just shy of 2 feet.
Snowfall in the Twin Cities metro varied, with the south metro receiving 10 to 12 inches, while the north metro saw 4 to 8 inches.
The shift to the south occurred because the storm’s surface low pressure system tracked farther south than originally expected. Rather than moving from near Des Moines toward Milwaukee, the system is now following a path from Kansas City toward the north side of Chicago…