Get ready for an ugly afternoon commute with more winter weather in the metro

Downtown Minneapolis, snow
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If your'e at work (like those of us here at WCCO), you might want to get an early start home if you can.  It could be a long one.  

He adds, "That said, travel conditions will be difficult into the late evening hours with 2-4" of snow in most areas, about 2 to 3" of that falling in time for rush hour , which will be anything but. Winds will gust over 30 mph so there will be some blowing and drifting in open spots, but the metro will only get a taste of the road-closing snows that closed much of far western Minnesota and the Dakotas."