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From the National Weather Service

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN 1153 AM CST TUE DEC 13 2005

SIGNIFICANT SNOW POSSIBLE FOR EASTERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN WILL MOVE TO NORTHERN MINNESOTA BY LATE IN THE DAY WEDNESDAY. SNOW WILL DEVELOP IN ADVANCE OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TONIGHT ACROSS MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE SNOW MAY BE HEAVY AT TIMES OVER FAR EASTERN AREAS OF MINNESOTA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY.AND ACROSS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ON WEDNESDAY.

SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 6 INCHES OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...GENERALLY TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM MANKATO...TO THE TWIN CITIES...AND MORA.

THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL RATES SHOULD OCCUR BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 6AM WEDNESDAY IN EASTERN MINNESOTA...AND BETWEEN 3 AM AND NOON WEDNESDAY IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...AND THE GREATEST ACCUMULATION SHOULD OCCUR DURING THESE TIME FRAMES. HOWEVER...THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE SLOWLY AND IS EXPECTED TO STALL OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. THEREFORE...LIGHT SNOW WILL STILL BE LIKELY ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY...BUT AMOUNTS ARE EXPECTED TO ONLY BE BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES AND NOT OF THE INTENSITY THAT IS EXPECTED FOR A SHORT TIME LATE TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.

Oh, how does it sucketh to live in the Great White North, let me count the ways.

Also, one wonders when a degree in meteorology is going to come replete with a lesson in punctuation.