{"id":356366,"date":"2025-12-18T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356366\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:57:12","slug":"next-weather-alert-thursday-as-rain-changes-to-snow-with-flash-freeze-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/356366\/","title":{"rendered":"NEXT Weather Alert Thursday as rain changes to snow, with flash freeze possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Twin Cities is under a NEXT Weather Alert on Thursday due to a strong and complex storm that could make for a difficult evening commute.<\/p>\n

A winter weather advisory is in effect from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. for blowing snow and a flash freeze that will create icy roads.<\/p>\n

A wind advisory is in effect from noon until 9 p.m. Thursday for gusts of up to 45 mph.<\/p>\n

The conditions have led some schools, primarily in western Minnesota, to\u00a0close or delay start times on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a brief lull, expect a round of snow showers late Thursday morning into the afternoon with an inch or less of accumulation.<\/p>\n

Winds will gust up near 45 mph, which could lead to reduced visibility with the snow. \u00a0<\/p>\n

WCCO <\/p>\n

Faster winds and 1-3 inches of snow will create blizzard conditions across northwestern Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Temperatures fall all day from around 40 degrees in the morning to the teens by dinner, making for icy roads Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Wind chills drop below zero Thursday evening and will reach around minus 10 by Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Friday starts cold, but quiet and calmer for all, but another fast clipper may throw a few snow showers across the metro Friday night.<\/p>\n

Temps rebound back into the 20s late Friday and early Saturday before another dip into the teens and single digits Sunday.<\/p>\n

Temperatures may warm back above freezing next week with no major storms on the horizon.<\/p>\n

White Christmas chances in limbo given our already-dwindling existing snow pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Twin Cities is under a NEXT Weather Alert on Thursday due to a strong and complex storm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-356366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}