Winter storm brings blizzard conditions and dangerous wind chills to US Upper Midwest
Source: AP
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and JEFF MARTIN
Updated 10:54 PM CST, December 28, 2025
A potent winter storm threatened blizzard-like conditions, treacherous travel and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest as other areas of the country braced Monday for plunging temperatures, strong winds and a mix of snow, ice, and rain.
The snow and strengthening winds began spreading Sunday across the northern Plains, where the National Weather Service warned of whiteout conditions and possible blizzard conditions that could make travel impossible in some areas. Snowfall totals were expected to exceed a foot (30 centimeters) across parts of the upper Great Lakes and as much as double that along the south shore of Lake Superior.
“Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of the storm along the cold front are getting higher winds and much colder temperatures as the front passes,” said Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster at the National Weather Service office in College Park, Maryland. “They’re all related to each other — different parts of the country will be receiving different effects from this storm.”
The weather service warned of “dangerous wind chills” as low as minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 34.4 degrees Celsius) in North Dakota and into Minnesota from Sunday night into Monday.
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It seems to have stopped now. It is around 11F here this morning.
I have yet to go outside to take a look. Nowadays, it takes twice as long to get ready to go out than the trip outside does. Plus, thanks to age or whatever is going on, I now tend to get heated while trying to put the crap on, so I am already wet by the time I get to go out.
When I went to bed last night, it was 77 inside, which is where our thermostat is set to run the AC at night. We've had several days of weather in the 70's -- pretty unusual for the Solstice, especially surprising following a cold front where it got down to 15 at night. I got up in the middle of the night (after 2:30) and switched the AC to heat -- it had finally dropped to 75 -- then woke up in the morning to cold indoors, near-freezing outdoors.
Sometime late yesterday evening, I sat down to check the weather online, expecting more warm weather. A Wind Advisory was in effect -- first I'd known about it. At just that minute, I heard a tremendous wind outside. Weather radar showed a very sharp, tight front passing through our area a right that minute. Really a weird coincidence. Then I saw sub-freezing temps predicted for last night, not just Mon. night, as had been predicted earlier. Shows you can't ignore the weather for long. Imagine not knowing the forecast, and leaving the thermostat on AC all night ! When our heat broke down a couple of weeks ago (during a really unusually cold front) it dropped below 60 indoors at night. Last night, we had no idea we'd need blankets at all, except for that forecast.
(All temps in degrees Fahrenheit. 
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