Blizzard conditions lead to near-zero visibility in Minnesota

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn.– Blizzard conditions created unsafe travel across Minnesota, starring to a nary question advisory connected Thursday.

A Blizzard Warning was successful effect for Polk County for astir of the time Thursday.

Minnesota State Trooper Sgt. Jesse Grabow posted video to X connected Thursday greeting showing conditions, saying troopers were assisting traffic. 

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Whiteout conditions led to astir nary visibility crossed bluish Minnesota. 

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Video showed however atrocious conditions were, arsenic whiteout conditions prevented seeing vehicles from passing by.

Several roads successful northwest Minnesota were closed owed to the blizzard conditions, according to Minnesota 511.

Strong, gusty winds took implicit the inheritance sound successful the video.

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Whiteout conditions led to a nary question advisory connected galore Minnesota highways. 

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Wind gusts implicit 70 mph were recorded crossed bluish Minnesota and North Dakota, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

While snowfall totals didn't magnitude to much, blowing snowfall and whiteout conditions caused unsafe driving conditions connected large interstates.