Schools announce multi-day closures in advance of extreme cold

More schools will likely follow suit.

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Stillwater Schools has broken the ice, so to speak, and canceled classes on Tuesday and Wednesday in advance of the extremely cold temperatures and wind chills set to absorb all of Minnesota this week.

The North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District has also announced schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday, as did Roseville Area Schools.

Since then, dozens of schools and districts have followed, many of them in the metro area, including Minneapolis Public Schools and Osseo School District.

Check the full list at the bottom of the story.

Anoka-Hennepin School District closed Monday due to snow and posted on its website that it "will continue to monitor the weather before making a decision about additional school closures this week."

Governor Tim Walz has the power to call off school for the entire state if he so chooses, but on Monday afternoon said he will NOT be doing this, saying he'll leave the decision in the hands of school districts.

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Many schools have guidelines for closing on cold days, and you can read more about those right here.

Temperatures are expected to drop into the negative 20s and 30s with wind chill values ranging from -30 to -55 in the metro area and as low as -65 in parts of central Minnesota.

This story will be updated as more schools declare closures.

North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
AFSA High School - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Albany Area Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Alden-Conger Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Anoka-Hennepin School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Bemidji Area Schools - closed Tuesday
Big Lake Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Bloomington Public Schools – closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Brainerd Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Burnsville School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Brooklyn Center District 286 - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Cambridge-Isanti School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Centennial School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Chisago Lakes District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Dassel-Cokato Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Eastern Carver County Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Elk River/Zimmerman/Otsego/Rogers Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Farmington Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Fergus Falls Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Forest Lake District 831 - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Goodhue Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Hopkins Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Hutchinson Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Inver Grove Heights – closed Tuesday
Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Kenyon-Wanamingo Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Kimball Area Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Little Falls Community Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Lyle School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Melrose Area Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Milaca Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Minneapolis Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Minnewaska Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
North Branch Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Northeast Metro #916 - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Osseo School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Parkers Prairie School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Parks Rapids Area Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Pine River-Backus District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Richfield Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Rochester Public Schools - closed Tuesday
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Roseville Area Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Sartell-St. Stephen School District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Sauk Centre District - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Sauk Rapids-Rice Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
South St. Paul Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
St. Cloud District 742 - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
St. Croix Prep - Stillwater - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
St. Louis Park Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
St. Michael-Albertville Public and Parochial - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
St. Paul Academy & Summit School - closed Tuesday, Wednesday, 2-hours late Thurs.
St. Paul Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Stillwater Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Swanville Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Triton Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Walker-Hackensack-Ackeley Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Wayzata Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Winona Public Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday
Zumbrota-Mazeppa Schools - closed Tuesday, Wednesday