Cooler Sunday temps; snow reports starting to come in

Be careful as you head out the door this morning. Freezing rain was followed by snow overnight, so you may not see all the slick spots that are out there on the sidewalks, driveways and streets.

Updated Minnesota road conditions can be found here. Wisconsin road conditions can be found here.

Snow totals

Overnight snow totals are arriving very slowly, but we do have a few. MSP Airport reports 3.3 inches and the Chanhassen NWS office came in with 3.1 inches overnight. Many observers take their snow measurements around 7 am, so I expect many more snow totals in the next few hours.

Cool day

Sunday highs will top 30 degrees in much of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, with mainly 20s in western Minnesota:

It’ll be breezy, with gusts over 20 mph in most areas:

Forecast gusts are in knots, with 18 knots equal to 20.7 mph.

Snow chances?

A few spots may see a passing flurry today. A low pressure system will spread snow across Iowa, northern Illinois and far southern Wisconsin Sunday night and Monday. The far southeastern corner of Minnesota could get clipped by light snow showers late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s North American Mesoscale (NAM) forecast model shows the potential precipitation pattern from 6 pm Sunday to noon on Monday:

You can hear updated weather information for Minnesota and western Wisconsin on the Minnesota Public Radio News networkand you can see updated weather info on the MPR News live weather blog.

Iowa tornado fatalities

I will post information on the Updraft update on the tornadoes that caused 6 fatalities southwest of Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday.

Programming note

You can hear my live weather updates on MPR News at 7:35 am, 9:35 am and 4:39 pm each Saturday and Sunday.