Major storm underway across the northern US | AccuWeather
Winter is back with a vengeance across the North Central States. You can see the snow we've put down already in Melrose, Wisconsin, five and a half inches, five in Millbank, South Dakota, and five in Rochester, Minnesota. But this, this is the appetizer. This is a snack compared to the totals we're going to see throughout the week. Let me show you the band here on satellite radar. You can see from Rapid City to Minneapolis, Green Bay, stretching into Madison, Wisconsin, all through the Mitten of Michigan and up to the UP, the Sioux getting some snow as well. And this is what we'll see.
Commit this band to memory because you'll see it a lot over the next 36 hours or so. We're going to have that snow nearly continuous for that stretch of time. These are the final numbers we're looking at by the time the band has dissipated and the storm has moved back to the North and East. Rapid City, about a foot to a foot and a half of snowfall. Sioux Falls, more of the same. If you live in Bismarck Fargo or Duluth, you're in that three to six inch range, not quite as high in terms of the numbers. But wait, there's more.
I say the best for last. We're going to dig into Minneapolis where we could see up to two feet of snow. And I think we will have significant problems in the Twin Cities. Rapidly worsening travel throughout the day, blowing and drifting snow with dangerously gusty winds, life-threatening travel overnight to the point that I really do think the airport will get shut down because this storm will be so significant. If you have flights planned out of MSP, make sure you're checking in on them. I would not be surprised to see them delayed or canceled. Here's your Accuweather Wintercast for Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Again, one to two feet possible between right now and 7 p.m. on Thursday. That's a lot of snow. And despite the fact that, yes, Minneapolis has a reputation of being a somewhat wintery city, two feet is not exactly normal. It's actually somewhat rare to get all of that snow at once in the city of Minneapolis. This is a look at the top 10 snowstorms in Minneapolis in recorded history.
And as you can see, the top storm is the Halloween storm of 1991. With that storm, we saw about 28.4 inches of snow. If we see two feet of snow out of this current storm, that will be number two on the list of historic storms in Minneapolis. We're also looking at an icing threat here. You can see the magenta across southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois stretching out through the mitten right into Detroit. That's where I think we could have significant impacts in terms of icing, especially on bridges and overpasses.
Sidewalks as well, trees, power lines. It's just bad news bears here. Little further out, you can see the lighter pink across I-90, I-75, stretching out towards Chicago, Des Moines, and Lincoln, Nebraska. We could see some icing issues there as well with sleet and freezing rain. It's just not quite as widespread as the magenta area around Detroit. Again, looking at nasty travel conditions, and I do think power outages, even widespread power outages, are possible. Here's your AccuWeather Wintercast in Detroit, Michigan, a quarter to half an inch of ice expected through 10 a.
m. on Thursday. This will make for dangerous travel conditions. So if you can stay off the road, I highly suggest it. The last punch here, it's like salt in the wound. Not great, but you know, it's just what we deal with. Minneapolis, you can see the temperatures just plummet.
Thursday and Friday were back in the teens, 11 degrees by Friday afternoon in Minneapolis, four degrees Friday, and Sioux Falls that cold air intruding in a hurry as this storm.
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