How does it look out there?

Be sure to send in your own images of the snow for display. We'll have some fun with this.

Meanwhile, let's take a look at the Weather Story graphics from the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office.

Not sure I personally appreciate where the image above indicates "blowing snow developing tonight." What is nice is that the Twin Cities has a small window of light (and even no) snow now, but the service notes:

Additional significant accumulation is expected along with major impacts to travel due to the intense nature of the snowfall. The snow will begin to ease late on Christmas and into early Saturday.

MPR's Elizabeth Dunbar provides the bigger picture:

Besides a few flurries, we're in a lull right now in the Twin Cities and much of the state. But heavy snowfall will resume after noon and continue into Thursday night.

Thursday evening is also when we could see blizzard conditions in Duluth and along the north shore of Lake Superior.

The latest National Weather Service predictions show the heaviest band of snow will fall right down the middle of the state from north to south. Snowfall could still reach 16-22 inches in places including the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Alexandria, Mankato and Duluth.

Mark Seeley, University of Minnesota climatologist and meteorologist, said it looks like the storm might hang around until Sunday morning. Seeley will be on MPR's Midday at 11 a.m. to talk about the storm.

The snow totals are trickling in from across the state. The highest totals so far are 8.5 inches in Prior Lake and 8 inches in Faribault. Duluth has gotten about 4 inches, but blowing and drifting could make the snow quite deep in places.

The storm will still have to dump quite a bit more snow to beat all-time records. But it's likely many cities will see records broken for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Wonder where the final measurement will fall. Meteorologists, know Bob Collins is watching and measuring your forecasts.