Heavy accumulations of snow and ice possible across Northern US over the holiday weekend

The winter weather isn’t going down without a combat successful parts of the Upper Midwest and Northern Plains arsenic Americans acquisition a unsmooth commencement to spring.

Over a ft of snow and important icing is apt crossed portions of the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest starting contiguous and into this holiday weekend.

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Wisconsin has experienced wide icing, resulting successful thousands of powerfulness outages.

Over 50,000 radical successful the authorities are without electricity.

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So far, locations specified arsenic Polonia, Wisconsin, person experienced fractional an inch of ice accumulation, threatening travelers successful the portion arsenic Americans are connected the determination for the vacation weekend.

Locations specified arsenic North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota person already begun to acquisition mean snowfall accumulations since Thursday evening.

Roscoe, South Dakota, has received 4.7 inches of snowfall truthful far.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, a 2nd akin but stronger tempest is expected by the commencement of the weekend. It could bring much wide snowfall totals, with different 8 to 12 inches imaginable crossed the Dakotas and Northern Minnesota.

Colder aerial is expected to settee successful spot crossed Wisconsin and bluish Michigan, allowing much wintry conditions to grow crossed some states.

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By the extremity of the weekend, snowfall totals could easy transcend a ft and a fractional successful cities specified arsenic Fargo, North Dakota, and Duluth, Minnesota.

Ice covers Robinson Road and postulation continued to beryllium airy Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 successful Conroe. Temperatures stayed beneath freezing Tuesday and roads remained icy.

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"To enactment much discourse into the snow, Fargo lone averages astir 4.1 inches each April," the FOX Forecast Center said. "The existent forecast calls for close astatine 12 inches by Saturday."

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By the clip the vacation play arrives, travelers crossed astir of the Upper Midwest volition look lingering snowfall and ice, which volition surely impact drivers heading to household for Easter Sunday.