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Rosemount: Expect Snow, Wind to Open the New Year

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for tonight and tomorrow morning. Up to five inches of snow is expected to fall, followed by gusty winds tomorrow.

Old Man Winter appears ready to ring in the New Year with snow and wind.

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Rosemount and the rest of the Twin Cities metropolitan area for later tonight and tomorrow.

In what the NWS is calling “the first widespread winter weather event of the season,” Rosemount is expected to receive between three and five inches of snow between 9 p.m. tonight and 6 a.m. Sunday.

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But that’s not the best part. A Wind Advisory has been issued for the area and will be in effect from 6 a.m. to midnight Sunday. The NWS says the snow we get overnight tonight will be blown around by northwest winds gusting to between 30 and 35 miles per hour.

What a way to start the New Year!

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For today, the NWS is forecasting a 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 3 p.m., and a high of 42. The temperatures will turn colder this evening, which precipitation turning to all snow by the storm warning takes effect at 9 p.m.

Sunday’s night is predicted to reach 27, with a low of 11 tomorrow night.

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