Snow emergencies continue in Minneapolis and St. Paul following weekend snow

Snow emergencies continue Monday in St. Paul and Minneapolis in the wake of the weekend winter storm that dropped more than a half-foot of snow on parts of the state.

Mankato, New Ulm, Rochester and Waseca are among the other cities across southern Minnesota that declared snow emergencies or implemented other special parking restrictions due to the snow.

Vehicles that don’t follow the parking rules may be ticketed or towed.

Snow totals reported over the weekend included 12 inches near Blue Earth, 11.2 inches at Minnesota City, 9 inches in Windom and 8 inches at Northfield.

The Twin Cities metro area saw 3 to 6 inches of snow, with the highest totals generally in the south metro. The Duluth area also saw totals near a half-foot, thanks in part to lake-effect snow bands.

In the wake of the snow, a blast of arctic air moved into the region for this week. Temperatures dropped below zero across parts of Minnesota on Monday morning.

MnDOT plows clear snow from Interstate 494 in Inver Grove Heights during a winter storm on Saturday morning.

Andrew Krueger | MPR News

Minneapolis snow emergency

The snow emergency in Minneapolis follows a multi-day schedule, with varying parking rules:

• 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, to 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 1: do not park on either side of a snow emergency route until 8 a.m., or until the street is fully plowed. Snow emergency routes are marked with signs. The city also has an online map of all snow emergency routes.

• From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, do not park on the even-numbered side of a non-snow emergency route until 8 p.m., or until that side of the street is fully plowed. For parkways, do not park on either side until 8 p.m., or until the parkway is fully plowed.

• From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, do not park on the odd-numbered side of a non-snow emergency route until 8 p.m., or until that side of the street is fully plowed.

St. Paul snow emergency

The snow emergency in St. Paul also follows a multi-day schedule:

• Beginning at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30, do not park on night plow routes. That includes all of downtown, as well as streets with posted signs reading “night plow route” or “night plow route this side of street.”

• Beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, all day plow routes will be cleared in St. Paul — with no parking allowed. Day plow routes are not marked by signs; if there are no "night plow" signs posted within a block, the street should be considered a day plow route.

The snow emergency will remain in effect until 9 p.m. Thursday. Don’t park on streets that have not been plowed to the curb.