Winter Weather in Dakota, Minnesota

The nearby ASOS at KMSP reported an hour and a half of light freezing precipitation with occasional during the afternoon. Several CoCoRaHS observers reported a mixture of sleet and freezing precipitation resulting in a glaze of ice during the early afternoon in Burnsville, Lakeville, and Inner Grove Heights.

A weather system resulted in a light wintry mix of precipitation during the early afternoon on January 4th. Surface temperatures were about 5 to 10 degrees below freezing, under a slightly warmer air mass just above the surface. This resulted in a few hours of light freezing rain or drizzle, and ultimately light ice accretion, creating slick surfaces for a number of counties in east-central Minnesota. Farther north, the airmass just above the surface was slightly cooler, resulting in more snow mixing in with any freezing precipitation. This limited impacts for areas north and west of St Cloud, Princeton, and Rush City.