Weather

A large part of Minnesota is facing a threat of freezing rain and light snow.

The National Weather Service has confirmed three tornadoes touched down and caused damage in northeast Iowa and southwest Wisconsin Saturday.

Early spring storms struck parts of Iowa and Wisconsin Saturday and hail was reported in the Rochester area.

Parts of southeast Minnesota received between half an inch and an inch of rain on Saturday and that has led to another rise in streams, creeks, and rivers.

Heavy rain, a snowstorm and thunderstorms are in Minnesota’s weather forecast for the final weekend of March.

March has come in like a lamb in SE Minnesota and Sunday may be the warmest day in Rochester since late November.

Anyone with travel plans in southeastern Minnesota is being advised to closely monitor the weather forecasts heading into next week.

Strong southwest winds with gusts well over 30 miles per hour are creating some very slick conditions and parts of southeastern Minnesota this afternoon.

It took longer than expected to arrive but yesterday’s snowstorm ended up being a record event.

It hasn’t been this cold in the Rochester area since that Siberian streak of temperatures experienced in the second half of January last year. That streak included a minus 30 on Jan. 31st, 2019