Plenty of very light flakes out there this morning which will continue off and on through the day. This is because our temperatures are in the "goldilocks" zone to develop snowflakes. Snowflakes develop in very specific temperatures in our atmosphere, known as the (1/5)

"snow growth region". It's when temperatures are between -18°C & -10°C (or roughly 0°F-10°F). With ample moisture present, AKA cloud cover, the larger (vertically speaking) this zone is, the higher your opportunity to get flakes to develop & fall to the ground, even in a (2/5)

benign atmosphere. This weather balloon sounding from MSP this morning, shows the region for growing snowflakes in orange... along with the temp line in red and dew point line in green going from the bottom to the top of the atmosphere. The longer the distance the red & (3/5)

green lines spend in the snow growth region, the better the opportunity to see some flakes. This morning, those lines are spending roughly 10,000 feet in this zone, with a couple of different cloud decks in there. This is more than enough time to develop snowflakes. (4/5)

But we don't have a lot of churning in the atmosphere from any storm moving through, so therefore we're only getting some flurries & NOT heavy snow. For reference, during many large snowstorms, the temp & dew point rarely spend more than 5000 feet in the snow growth region. (5/5)