Minneapolis, MN weather
Right now 55°, cloudy · tonight 50°, cloudy · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 55° · cloudy · wind ESE 6 mph · 3° warmer than this time yesterday · at Minneapolis-St. Paul, 10:50 PM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 50. Southeast wind 0 to 10 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Minneapolis
Minneapolis averages 40 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 40 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Minneapolis
The nearest radiosonde launch is Minneapolis, about 17 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Minneapolis (api.weather.gov), updated Fri, 10:21 PM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.