The heaviest of the snow so far this morning has remained in a general area from the Twin Cities east-southeast towards La Crosse and across southeastern Minnesota. There's a heavier burst of snow coming through the Twin Cities right now that we're monitoring. The movement is to the east and very slightly southeast, which would keep it tracking roughly along / near I-94.
Here's a look at the hometown forecast for today!
FALL COLORS UPDATE: Colors continue to rapidly change across the area and the state. Most of the Chippewa Valley is now over 60% color with colors at or near peak in Taylor and Clark counties. Peak colors in the Chippewa Valley and western Wisconsin will be over the next 7-14 days.
Across the state, most of the northern and northeastern part of the state is seeing peak colors while colors are still a bit more patchy farther south and southeast.
As always, you can head over to https://www.travelwisconsin.com/fall-color-report to view the latest fall colors yourself at anytime.
Check out the time lapse of the storms rolling in this morning from our Phoenix Park camera.
Showers and thunderstorms continue to increase in coverage and intensity as it tracks towards our area. There are a couple severe thunderstorm warnings in southern Minnesota as of now. A reminder that parts of the area is under a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH until 10 AM.
Most of the rain and thunderstorm activity early this morning remain to the north and west of the Chippewa Valley though we do have some scattered showers around within our area. Movement is to the east and east-northeast. More showers and thunderstorms could develop over the next few hours as well.
Outside of a few rain showers, most of the Chippewa Valley is quiet but we're watching an area of light to moderate rain tracking into southern Minnesota, moving to the north and northeast. The severe threat as of now remains very low, but we'll monitor things as it approaches our area.
The latest update on the drought monitor is out and most of the Chippewa Valley isn't seeing any drought at the present time despite the higher fire danger the last few days. With some decent rainfall in the forecast, this will decrease the fire danger and likely decrease the drought issues in the areas seeing moderate to severe drought (NE and SW parts of the state)
Areas of light to moderate rainfall continue to track north across a good portion of the area early this morning. Along with some heavier bursts of rain, there may be some thunder and lightning mixed in as well. This will continue for at least the next few hours.
Thanks to the precipitation we've gotten over the last week, we've seen a significant improvement in the drought monitor areawide and statewide. The yellow areas are considered abnormally dry or "pre-drought" conditions... or in other words, areas that are either going into/coming out of a drought.
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