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Thursday, December 29, 2011

A Messy Morning Rush on Friday?

The National Weather Service is predicting up to a couple inches of snow Thursday night and Friday morning, just in time for commuters to hit the roads.

The final morning rush hour of 2011 might be a memorable one. The National Weather Service has issued a snowy Hazardous Weather Outlook for Inver Grove Heights and the rest of the Twin Cities metropolitan area for Thursday night and Friday morning. And as many commuters can tell you, a little bit of early-morning snow can make the morning rush hour last a lot longer than normal. A low pressure system is expected to produce mixed freezing rain and snow during the evening, then to all snow overnight and Friday morning. Snow could accumulate up to two inches, according to the NWS office in Chanhassen. Meteorologist Paul Douglas, in his weather blog on Startribune.com Thursday morning, says the Twin Cities area could get between one and three …

Friday, December 16, 2011

Patch Poll: Are You Dreaming of a Brown Christmas?

This year's unseasonably mild weather might mean Inver Grove Heights and the rest of the Twin Cities metropolitan area will miss out on a white Christmas.

If you are looking forward to a white Christmas, there’s always next year. Local weather forecasters say the prospects of a white Christmas—which is defined as having at least an inch of snow on the ground on Dec. 25—are looking bleak at this moment. That means we probably are heading for a brown Christmas in Inver Grove Heights and elsewhere in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, something that happens about 28 percent of the time, according to Paul Douglas’ weather blog Thursday on startribune.com. Douglas is predicting that high temperatures on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be 30 to 35 degrees, which is above average for this time of year. Dave Dahl, on kstp.com, isn’t optimistic about the chances of a white Christmas, either. He …

Kathee

8:23 pm on Saturday, December 17, 2011

This weather is making me wish I hadn't put my motorcycle away for the winter.   more ›

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