WINONA, Minn. – The National Weather Service issued a warning for all southeast Minnesota and north Iowa for significant overnight snow and strong winds. Accumulations of six inches to 12 inches were expected. Forty mile-an-hour winds will whip snow, reduce visibility, and lead to hazardous driving conditions. It’s worse in far southwest Minnesota and adjacent Iowa where blizzards were expected. The Weather Service’s technical definition for a “blizzard” is a storm lasting more than three hours with sustained winds of 35 mph with frequent gusts to 35 mph and considerable falling or blowing snow frequently reducing visibilities to less than a quarter mile.”
Snow forecast. Bitter cold coming too. Image: National Weather Service
Smothers Brothers. At the cutting edge of social commentary in the 1970s with “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” on CBS. Tom, who died in December at age 86, had a line “And don’t freeze your bippies off.” So what’s a bippie? He never said.