GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — You know them... friends and neighbors who wait for snow like presents on Christmas. They're the ones who have been walking around grumbling about uncovered grass and unfrozen lakes and telling stories about epic winters from the past.
Well, there may be some smiles today in parts of Minnesota, as a winter system is dropping significant snow in specific areas of the state. KARE 11's Weather Team said Marshall and other locales in the southwest could get between five and 10 inches Monday into Tuesday morning, while far southeastern Minnesota and a swath of southern Wisconsin could get a foot.
KARE 11 meteorologist John Zeigler said light snow that started falling in the Twin Cities metro about 8 a.m. would only last a couple of hours before resuming tonight. He predicted just one to three inches but said it would be enough to make roads slick and make driving tricky for the afternoon commute.
So why is the seven-county metro being left out of the snow party? Zeigler blames a pocket of dry air that is keeping the system at bay to the south, and his colleague KARE 11 Meteorologist Ben Dery adds to the explanation.
"The problem in the near term is that while strong storm systems are developing, the tracks of these systems are missing us to the south. That's the case with today's storm, and it will be the case with another storm that we will get a glancing blow from later this week. Areas in Iowa, southern Wisconsin and Illinois will be getting hit with a couple of major snowstorms while we are more spectators than anything else," Dery said.
"We will get some serious cold scheduled to arrive later this weekend, likely our first subzero readings of the season," he added.
If there is a silver lining to getting less snow, it's that lakes in the metro won't have a heavy blanket of snow that will meddle with ice-making when temps drop into single, then below zero digits on Friday into the weekend. That should be a good recipe for good, strong ice that will soon allow ice anglers and others to do their thing.
WATCH MORE ON KARE 11+
Download the free KARE 11+ app for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV and other smart TV platforms to watch more from KARE 11 anytime! The KARE 11+ app includes live streams of all of KARE 11's newscasts. You'll also find on-demand replays of newscasts; the latest from KARE 11 Investigates, Breaking the News and the Land of 10,000 Stories; exclusive programs like Verify and HeartThreads; and Minnesota sports talk from our partners at Locked On Minnesota.
- Add KARE 11+ on Roku here or by searching for KARE 11 in the Roku Channel Store.
- Add KARE 11+ on Fire TV here or by searching for KARE 11 in the Amazon App Store.
- Learn more about the KARE 11+ app for Apple TV in the Apple App Store.
- Learn more about KARE 11+ here.
Watch more WeatherMinds:
Watch the latest deep dives and explainers on weather and science in our YouTube playlist:
