weather

A blizzard watch is in effect for west-central, southwest and portions of south-central Minnesota on Sunday afternoon through Monday morning. The watch area is along and west of a line from Alexandria to Albert Lea. Winds of 40-50 mph, along with light snow and the extensive snowpack, could result in blowing and drifting snow with possible white-out conditions...

The group of 32 people from the Faribault area that was due to return late Tuesday night from Ballard's resort is not coming back until Wednesday afternoon, due to weather and road conditions in the Twin Cities and in the Faribault area. After fishing on Tuesday, I was called in to a consult with staff from the resort and our bus driver...

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect from 9AM Tuesday until 6AM Wednesday. A Blizzard Warning is in effect for Owatonna and other areas. Snowfall accumulations of 6-11 inches are expected south of a line from Redwood Falls to Minneapolis to Cumberland, Wisconsin, on Tuesday and Tuesday night...

According to the Weather Eye Weather Center, we can expect double-digit below zero temperatures Sunday night and Monday night before a warm-up starts on Tuesday. Many schools are off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, and with the cold it may be harder to get some of the buses get going on Tuesday...

The National Weather Service in Twin Cities/Chanhassen has issued A wind chill advisory, which is in effect from 3AM to noon Saturday.

Minnesotans like warm weather. The Department of Natural Resources held a poll to rank the top weather events of 2015. The warmer than normal autumn topped the list.

After our first major snow event earlier in the week, it looks as though 2015 will go out quietly weather-wise and 2016 will come in the same way. According to the National Weather Service for the Faribault area, no precipitation is expected through Wednesday and near normal temperatures...

Update from the National Weather Service: ...Heavy snow expected for central and southern Minnesota and West-central Wisconsin Monday afternoon into Tuesday... .A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for all of west Central Wisconsin and parts of central and southern Minnesota, generally along and south of a line from Redwood Falls, to Buffalo and Taylors Falls...

The weather the Faribault area has been experiencing lately is certainly not typical for this season in Minnesota, and that has many wondering if we will have a white Christmas this year. Temperatures last week were in the 40s at times, and this week brought rain, which is not the the precipitation that we in the upper Midwest expect to be seeing in December. With the holidays just a week away, I

Walking outside this afternoon it sure did not feel like December 7. In fact, just last Wednesday the Co-op finished applying my anhydrous ammonia. It was wet and slimy on the soil surface but it got down well below 32 degrees Tuesday night...