Community Corner
What's Your Excuse for Going Out in the 'Yukon Breeze'?
Wind Chill Advisory until 9 a.m. Wednesday for Fridley. People in Anoka County and much of Minnesota need to take precautions.
Updated. Bundle up and get ready for snow in a few days.
The National Weather Service issued a Wind Chill Advisory Tuesday afternoon for an area that includes Fridley and Anoka County and was set to last through 9 a.m. Wednesday. (An earlier advisory set the expiration time at 6 a.m.)
Why go out in this "Yukon breeze"? People at the Fridley Patch Facebook page had a range of excuses:
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- Catching a movie!
- Fridley Tiger Basketball!
- Classes
- Silver lake symphonic wind band rehearsal
- I have to be at work at 4 am
- Lifetime Fitness
- Registering my oldest daughter for 9th grade. Info night was tonight at the high school auditorium.
Why do you go out in severe wind chill conditions? Leave a comment below!
This is from the National Weather Service's statement:
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WIND CHILL VALUES DROPPING AGAIN TONIGHT...AND A WINTER STORM APPROACHING FOR LATE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...
WIND CHILL VALUES OF 20 BELOW TO 35 BELOW ZERO WILL PERSIST INTO TONIGHT ACROSS WEST CENTRAL MINNESOTA...AND WIND CHILLS FROM 20 TO 25 BELOW ZERO ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TO THE EAST...AS BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 20 MPH CONTINUE. THE WIND WILL DECREASE OVERNIGHT FROM WEST TO EAST...BUT TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLDER THAN LAST NIGHT...SO WIND CHILL VALUES WILL ONCE AGAIN DROP TO LESS THAN 25 BELOW ZERO ACROSS MOST OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.
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