Snow to bring tricky travel conditions into Monday across northern tier of US
By
Courtney Travis, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Dec 8, 2019 4:37 PM EDT
A valley in Oak Creek, Colorado, had all the ingredients for a beautiful morning on Saturday, Dec. 7.
A snowstorm will shift eastward across the Midwest into Monday night, bringing difficult travel from Minnesota to Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
On Sunday morning, snow began falling across parts of Montana, Wyoming and western Colorado. For the most part, snow accumulations were light, with just a couple of inches reported on lower elevations.
The snow reached the Dakotas later in the weekend, with 5.7 inches reported at the National Weather Service office in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota, recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as the snow moved in late Sunday.
Snow ended across the eastern Dakotas early Monday morning but the snowstorm was just beginning to ramp up farther to the east.
The storm will intensify some as it moves through the Great Lakes and into Canada. This, combined with any enhancement from the lakes, may allow for a stripe of more than 6 inches of snow from Minnesota into southern Ontario in Canada.
An AccuWeather Local StormMax™ï¸ of 15 inches of snow is possible.
Given the storm's track, residents in cities like Duluth, St. Cloud and Minneapolis, Minnesota, should expect to shovel out from a fresh snowfall by Monday evening.
Motorists should leave extra time for traveling. In places where the snow has already fallen, there could be icy spots on roadways. In places were snow is still falling, visibility can change rapidly, making it difficult to see more than just a few feet in front of you.
A narrow band of heavy snow was advancing eastward across central and eastern Iowa on Monday. The sudden snow and quick coating likely contributed to a multiple-vehicle pile-up near Des Moines earlier on Monday.
The steadiest and heaviest snow is forecast to occur into Monday evening for places like Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Marquette, Michigan.
Most of the snow with this storm is expected to move out of this region and into Canada by late Monday night.
On the southern side of the storm, drenching rain is expected to continue into Monday evening across portions of southern Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and eastern Indiana.
However, in the wake of the storm, the coldest air so far this season will press into the northern Plains.
Depending on how quickly the cold air moves in, any lingering wet spots could freeze up Monday night.
The cold ushering into the region will also set the stage for lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes through midweek.
Download the free AccuWeather app to check the forecast in your area. Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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Snow to bring tricky travel conditions into Monday across northern tier of US
By Courtney Travis, AccuWeather senior meteorologist
Published Dec 8, 2019 4:37 PM EDT
A valley in Oak Creek, Colorado, had all the ingredients for a beautiful morning on Saturday, Dec. 7.
A snowstorm will shift eastward across the Midwest into Monday night, bringing difficult travel from Minnesota to Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
On Sunday morning, snow began falling across parts of Montana, Wyoming and western Colorado. For the most part, snow accumulations were light, with just a couple of inches reported on lower elevations.
The snow reached the Dakotas later in the weekend, with 5.7 inches reported at the National Weather Service office in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Rapid City, South Dakota, recorded a wind gust of 67 mph as the snow moved in late Sunday.
Snow ended across the eastern Dakotas early Monday morning but the snowstorm was just beginning to ramp up farther to the east.
The storm will intensify some as it moves through the Great Lakes and into Canada. This, combined with any enhancement from the lakes, may allow for a stripe of more than 6 inches of snow from Minnesota into southern Ontario in Canada.
An AccuWeather Local StormMax™ï¸ of 15 inches of snow is possible.
Given the storm's track, residents in cities like Duluth, St. Cloud and Minneapolis, Minnesota, should expect to shovel out from a fresh snowfall by Monday evening.
Motorists should leave extra time for traveling. In places where the snow has already fallen, there could be icy spots on roadways. In places were snow is still falling, visibility can change rapidly, making it difficult to see more than just a few feet in front of you.
A narrow band of heavy snow was advancing eastward across central and eastern Iowa on Monday. The sudden snow and quick coating likely contributed to a multiple-vehicle pile-up near Des Moines earlier on Monday.
The steadiest and heaviest snow is forecast to occur into Monday evening for places like Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Marquette, Michigan.
Most of the snow with this storm is expected to move out of this region and into Canada by late Monday night.
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On the southern side of the storm, drenching rain is expected to continue into Monday evening across portions of southern Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and eastern Indiana.
However, in the wake of the storm, the coldest air so far this season will press into the northern Plains.
Depending on how quickly the cold air moves in, any lingering wet spots could freeze up Monday night.
The cold ushering into the region will also set the stage for lake-effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes through midweek.
Download the free AccuWeather app to check the forecast in your area. Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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