Minnesota Weather: Timeline For Twin Cities Metro Snowstorm - Southwest Minneapolis, MN - Here's when the snow will start, end, and how much we could see in central Minnesota.
State Patrol: 208 crashes, 183 spinouts on Minnesota roads during Saturday snow
By FOX 9 Staff
Of the reported crashes, 22 involved injuries, but none were serious and there were no fatalities.
Minnesota Department of Transportation cameras showed road conditions beginning to deteriorate Saturday afternoon. By Saturday night, almost all Minnesota roads were listed as covered in snow or light snow.
MSP Airport reported about 5 inches of snow, while areas like Chanhassen saw about 3 inches of snow.
Winter storm watch issued where snow could exceed 6 inches in Minnesota
Snow will spread from west to east starting Saturday morning in western Minnesota.
Author:
Chris Schad / Bring Me The News
It ll be a snowy Saturday across the southern half of Minnesota and the National Weather Service (NWS) expects most locations to get 3-6 inches of snow.
A winter storm watch has been issued for a small area of west-central and south-central Minnesota, mainly along the Minnesota River Valley, where isolated higher amounts up to 7 inches pile up.
Credit: NWS Twin Cities
The official snowfall forecast from the Twin Cities office of the NWS calls for 4-6 inches in the Twin Cities, 4-7 inches in Mankato, 3-7 inches in Redwood Falls, 2-5 inches for St. Cloud and 3-5 inches in Rochester.
Marshall Helmberger
For me, taking part in this year’s Christmas Bird Count in the Cook area was like a walk down memory lane. I took part in my first CBC, as they’re known, back in the mid-1970s when I was still in junior high. I had begun to develop an interest in birds a few years earlier, but when I walked one evening into a meeting of the Minnesota River Valley Audubon Club at Oak Grove Junior High in Bloomington, where I went to school, a whole world began to unfold.
It was a club dominated by middle-aged or older members, so the arrival of a gangly kid at their monthly soiree definitely caught their attention. By the time I left that evening I had open invitations from a half dozen of the members to go birding and had my official introduction to the sweet little old lady, whose name I have sadly forgotten, who sold the really good bird seed you couldn’t find in stores out of the back of her garage.