Minneapolis Snow Emergency Parking Rules and Road Conditions

5 current reports on the interstates around Minneapolis. The 4 most serious are listed below. Always check with the responsible state DOT before setting off.

• Lanes blocked

  Mainline Left Shoulder Closed on I-94 EB from QUIXOTE AVE-ST CROIX RIVER (BRIDGE CROSSING) to 11TH ST (BRIDGE CROSSING)

  I-94 EB • eastbound • WI • Until Nov 1, 4:59 AM

• Lanes blocked

  Mainline Left Lane Closed on I-94 WB from ON RAMP FROM FRONTAGE RD to WISCONSIN MINNESOTA STATE LINE

  I-94 WB • westbound • WI • Until Oct 31, 10:00 AM

• Lanes blocked

  I-94: Construction Work, Intermittent Lane Closure

  I-94 • westbound • MN • Until Nov 6, 12:00 AM

• Lanes blocked

  I-94: Bridge Construction, Reduced To Two Lanes

  I-94 • eastbound • MN • Until Nov 25, 11:00 AM

Minnesota DOT's report has not updated since Oct 14, 2026 7:00 PM CDT. Our forecast below is current.

Conditions are entered by Minnesota DOT maintenance staff and describe what is on the pavement, not the forecast. They reach this page through Iowa DOT's Winter Road Conditions – Midwest Region feed, published for reference; the authoritative report is 511MN. Always check with 511MN before setting off.

Source: Minnesota DOT, via Iowa DOT's Midwest Region layer, CC BY 4.0.

Minneapolis Weather Forecast: Next 6 Days

For Minneapolis itself. Each day shows its warmest and coldest hour, and the worst driving conditions forecast anywhere in it — not the average, because the hour that ices a bridge is the one worth knowing about.

1. Rest of today Oct 14

   

   56°F 53°F

   Dry

   Wind to 7 mph

2. Thu Oct 15

   

   55°F 49°F

   Moist

   Wind to 15 mph
   0.02 in precipitation

3. Fri Oct 16

   

   52°F 43°F

   Dry

   Wind to 19 mph

4. Sat Oct 17

   

   58°F 39°F

   Dry

   Wind to 15 mph

5. Sun Oct 18

   

   68°F 48°F

   Dry

   Wind to 13 mph

6. Mon Oct 19

   

   64°F 48°F

   Dry

   Wind to 7 mph

Forecast, not a measurement — from the same weather service that draws this page's radar and road colors, model run 7 hours ago. Days run on Central time, the clock the pass keeps — not the reader's.

Interstates Through Minneapolis

These interstates run within 25 miles of Minneapolis, nearest first. The mile is the milepost inside Minnesota, counted the way the state counts it, so it should match the exit numbers.

• I-94 near mile 231 I-94 across Minnesota
• I-35 near mile 105 7.1 mi from downtown I-35 across Minnesota

NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, from a weather station in Minnesota. A dash is a figure that station does not report, not a zero.

Snow Emergency Parking Rules in Minneapolis

A snow emergency in Minneapolis is a parking rule, not a road closure. Nobody is being told to stay off the streets — drivers are being told which side of which street to move off, and in what order, so the plows can reach the curb. A car left in the wrong place is ticketed and towed. That is the opposite of what the same two words mean in Ohio, where a level 3 closes the roads themselves.

The Director of Public Works declares a snow emergency in Minneapolis, after discussion with operational staff and other public safety officials. There is no snowfall total that triggers one automatically — the city weighs snow already on the ground, how much is falling, when it falls, the state of the streets, the forecast and the time of year, and says plainly that "no two snow events are exactly alike, and there's no formula for declaring a snow emergency."

Day 1, from 9 p.m.

Park: On either side of parkways and streets that are not snow emergency routes.
Do not park: On either side of snow emergency routes.

Day 2, from 8 a.m.

Park: On the odd side of streets that are not snow emergency routes, and on both sides of snow emergency routes.
Do not park: On the even side of streets that are not snow emergency routes, and on either side of parkways.

Day 3, from 8 a.m.

Park: On the even side of streets that are not snow emergency routes, on both sides of snow emergency routes, and on both sides of parkways.
Do not park: On the odd side of streets that are not snow emergency routes.

Quoted from the city's own parking rules at minneapolismn.gov, which is also where a declaration is posted; this page does not carry whether one is in force. How the phrase differs from Ohio's snow emergency levels.

Related Roads

Minneapolis Road Weather FAQ

Are any roads closed in Minneapolis right now?

No full closures are reported on I-94 and I-35 around Minneapolis as of Oct 14, 2026 8:02 PM CDT. 5 lane closures, roadworks or restrictions are in force. They are listed under closures and road blocks on this page.

What are Minneapolis road conditions today?

The map on this page colors the interstates around Minneapolis by what is on the pavement right now — dry, wet, slush, snow or ice — from radar and surface data, last updated Oct 14, 2026 8:03 PM CDT. Right now temperatures run from 49°F to 52°F and the strongest wind is 3 mph.

What is the weather forecast for Minneapolis this week?

At the summit, Oct 14 to Oct 19: highs 52-68°F, lows 39-53°F. No snow or ice is forecast on the road in that time. It is a forecast rather than a measurement, and the later days are less certain than the earlier ones.

How often does Minnesota DOT update winter road conditions?

Minnesota DOT reports the winter condition of each stretch of state highway through Iowa DOT's Winter Road Conditions – Midwest Region feed, which runs from October 15 to April 15 and refreshes every 10 minutes. The conditions are entered by maintenance staff and describe what is on the pavement, not a forecast; this page shows the current report for the interstates around Minneapolis beside our own road-surface forecast.

How often are Minneapolis road conditions updated?

The road surface and weather layers are rebuilt whenever this page is opened with data more than ten minutes old, and refreshed on a schedule in between, so nothing here is more than about two hours old even on a road nobody has looked at. Closures and road blocks are re-imported from the state 511 feeds every fifteen minutes, and the written state-by-state summaries are refreshed daily. Every section on this page carries the time its data was fetched.