The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning has been issued from 9 a.m. to midnight Sunday for western and southern Minnesota including Le Sueur, Sibley, Nicollet, Blue Earth, Waseca and Steele counties. Prior to the development of strong winds and blizzard conditions a period of snow is expected with accumulations from 2 to locally 5 inches. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued due to this expected snowfall... This advisory remains in effect through sSunday evening for locations where the blizzard warning does take effect... Given the expectation for significant blowing and drifting snow sunday afternoon and evening. Northwest winds from 30 to 40 mph... With gusts to 55 mph... Will develop across western and southern Minnesota on Sunday. The strong winds combined with the freshly fallen snow will result in blizzard conditions with widespread visibilities near zero in the blizzard warning area... With more sporadic whiteout conditions expected in the winter weather advisory area. The winds will diminish some late Sunday night which will allow conditions to improve but areas of blowing and drifting snow will likely persist into monday. In addition temperatures will quickly drop behind the low pressure system Sunday morning falling from an early high in the teens and 20s to readings below zero over most areas by evening. Temperatures will then drop into a range from 15 to 25 below by Monday morning. This will result in dangerous wind chills from 35 to 60 below zero beginning Sunday night and lasting into Tuesday. A wind chill watch has been issued for the entire coverage area to address this concern.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 08:12:25 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015