Minnesota Weather: Storm Likely To Bring 'Significant' Plowable Snow

We're 24 hours closer to a winter storm system arriving in Minnesota and the indications remain that it could be a big one.

It's still too far out for the National Weather Service to make snow predictions, but its latest forecast discussion does not hold back on the potential strength of the storm facing the state this week.

"Tuesday to Friday, confidence continues to increase in accumulating snow and significant travel impacts," it says. "There is still uncertainty, but overall system is large and slow-moving so it is becoming increasingly likely that this system will be extremely disruptive."

Minnesota will first be hit by a clipper system on Monday that could drop a couple of inches of snow north of I-94, but the main event starts on Tuesday.

Models continue to show huge snowfall on the cards, and while the NWS says it "won't dwell much" on the high-end predictions, the models are still projecting some huge totals.

The service says we could be looking "realistically" at over a foot of snow, which will also be combined at times with 20-30 mph winds that will cause blowing and drifting snow.

"The bottom line is next week's storm has a lot of potential to be the extremely disruptive to travel, and could even cause some impacts to infrastructure," the NWS says.

What do the models say?

The models currently have the heaviest band across southern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities. They're throwing up some ridiculous totals for the week, so prepare for these to be revised down somewhat in the coming days.

SOURCE: Bring Me The News