A grand reprise of winter
Old Man Winter may have dozed off for awhile, but he's got plenty of game left for February. Snow will crank up later today in the central Plains and expand north and east tonight. Here's the latest thinking from the National Weather Service, which paints the most likely area of heaviest snow from about Montevideo through the Twin Cities into Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
There will be a couple more model runs before the snowflakes light up on Doppler radar, but the trend appears to be a sharp cut off of the accumulating snow from about Alexandria to Rice lake.
A broad band of more than six inches of snow is likely, with a consensus forecast that more than ten inches of snow may occur in the Twin Cities.
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From the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center of the NWS.
We were about due, with less than an inch of snow so far this month at both Minneapolis/St. Paul and Eau Claire. The average snowfall for February in the Twin Cities is around eight inches.