Tuesday morning looks like the worst rush hour of the storm for the Twin Cities and much of central Minnesota. Expect a wintry mix and strong winds in northern and western Minnesota. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Stay with MPR News on air and online at mprnews.org throughout the day for the latest on the weather and to keep you safe on your commute.
Coming up on Morning Edition: The season's biggest winter storm is starting to diminish, and it dropped as much as a foot of snow in some places. But Minnesota has essentially been in a drought since the late summer of 2020. So was this big bout of precipitation enough to alleviate the lingering dryness? Luigi Romolo is a state climatologist and he joins host Cathy Wurzer to talk about the ongoing drought.
Host Angela Davis talks with Jessica Liimatainen and Jamie Gilchrist about being twins and young women in law enforcement. The conversation is part of our Power Pair series, focused on Minnesotans who play important roles in their community and who also have a close relationship with each other.
Colder air is expected to arrive in time for rush hour in the Twin Cities, as a major storm continues in Minnesota. Models suggest wind-driven snow that could accumulate to up to six inches in the northern metro by midday.
Due to potentially dangerous travel conditions, Duluth Public Schools will be closed and Cook County Schools in Grand Marais will start two hours late and will not serve breakfast.
What are seeing in your part of the state? Share your snow photos with us by sending them to tell@mpr.org and let us know where you took the photo.
This spring marks 25 years since Stu Peterson first tapped a maple tree on 190 acres of land on Star Lake, on the western edge of maple syrup territory in North America.
Every sap season is different, with this year a record early season. “We boiled our first boil on Feb. 26. That’s the earliest in our 25 years,” said Peterson. “That’s in such sharp contrast to a year ago, when our first boil was April 18. I mean, just two years, back to back, the earliest and the latest.”
Being selected to the North American Maple Syrup Hall of Fame is an honor, said Peterson, and likely the result of years of being engaged in various industry organizations.
In the introduction of her book, “I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times,” Monica Guzman describes arriving at her parents house to watch the 2020 election results.
But there’s a twist: Guzman is liberal. Her parents, she writes, are enthusiastic Trump supporters.
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What else we're watching:
The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore collapses after a ship crashed into it. A part of a Baltimore bridge serving as both an essential highway artery and a hub for shipping along the East Coast collapsed early Tuesday morning after a container ship crashed into it, sending people into the water. Emergency. personnel have been dispatched to the scene
Students, schools watch for impact of ending South Dakota tuition reciprocity. South Dakota will end its tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota in May. While the move has raised concerns about college affordability, in the short term it may make little difference.
Dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas test positive for bird flu. Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu . It comes a week after officials in Minnesota announced that goats on a farm where there had been an outbreak of bird flu among poultry were diagnosed with the virus.
