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Storm Systems Continue to Impact the Pacific Northwest; Lake Effect Snow Continues

A second Pacific cold front will cross the Pacific Northwest Wednesday followed by another atmospheric river. Each of these features will bring additional periods of gusty winds, mountain snow, and heavy to excessive rainfall with renewed flooding. Heavy lake effect snow continues into Tuesday east of Lakes Erie and Ontario. Read More >

The first freeze of the fall is expected across portions of central Minnesota and west central Wisconsin early Wednesday morning. 

 

 

What is the normal date for the first freeze each fall?  For the Twin Cities, it's between October 1st and 10th, and for Eau Claire and St. Cloud it's between September 21st and 30th.  After a warm start to the fall, it looks like the weather is starting to "fall" back to normal conditions for this time of year: