The NAM has a very warm nose up into the metro but the temps quickly cool and we go into heavy snow in the defo band Sunday afternoon for areas between 70 and 36. Maybe we can get the storm to tick a little cooler or the storm to nudge a county or 2 more to the south

Minneapolis doesn't even go below zero? This is January. This not even remotely close to a noteworthy cold spell there.

Still really nothing even decent on the models. Maybe we just are not in range yet.

My forecast amounts have gone up overnight. Now most are 4-7” as an initial attempt. My snow will probably be drier than further southeast. NWS Hastings holding off on headlines, as always, but says they are likely coming. Seems I80 and south is more favored. I’m 17 miles south of I80 in Central Nebraska. Here is one of my weather app predictions.

06z GEFS...