A late-season winter storm is targeting Minnesota’s most heavily traveled highway corridors this week, bringing a dangerous combination of heavy snow, freezing rain, sleet, and gusty winds that will make road conditions unpredictable and hazardous from Wednesday evening through Friday morning.
The National Weather Service Duluth office has issued a Winter Storm Warning for the North Shore of Lake Superior, including Southern Lake and Southern Cook counties. The Warning is in effect from Thursday 1:00 AM CDT through Friday 7:00 AM CDT. Forecasters are calling for 7 to 10 inches of total snow and sleet accumulation on the higher terrain of the North Shore, with ice accumulations around one-tenth of an inch and wind gusts reaching 35 MPH. This is an upgrade from the Winter Storm Watch that had been in place earlie …
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Author: Kyle Edward
