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Storm to dump snow in upper midwest

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Mar 3, 2013 at 7:32 pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) Another blast of winter weather is forecast to track from eastern North Dakota southeast overnight into Minnesota and Iowa.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning from Sunday evening through Tuesday for a system that is expected to dump the heaviest amounts of snow in eastern North Dakota and across a swath of Minnesota including the Twin Cities, down into northeastern Iowa.

North Dakota could see 8 to 12 inches of snow, with the highest amounts in Devils Lake, Grand Forks, Mayville, Fargo and Wahpeton. Six to 10 inches with isolated amounts of 12 inches were forecast from central through southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin into northern Iowa.

The St. Cloud area is expected to get 6 to 10 inches of snow by Tuesday morning.