Marshall residents were cleaning up after about 4 inches of drifting snow fell on the area over the weekend. Ehmu Soe shoveled out the end of a driveway on Monday.

MARSHALL — Marshall area residents were cleaning up Monday, after being blasted with a few inches of blowing snow over the weekend. Blizzard conditions led to no-travel advisories being issued for most of southern Minnesota on Sunday and part of Monday morning.

Within the city of Marshall, snowplow crews were on the streets before the snow event was over, said street superintendent Dean Coudron.

“We went out at noon (Sunday) and did all the main routes,” Coudron said. Plow crews headed back out at 4 a.m. Monday to clear snow from Marshall’s streets, and Coudron said they planned to do the same today. He encouraged residents to park off the street to give snowplows room.

“It makes it a lot easier for us if all vehicles are off the street,” he said.

Fortunately, some calmer weather is in the forecast, said Jeff Chapman at the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls.

“It looks like a pretty quiet week coming up,” Chapman said. While temperatures will get colder later in the week, there won’t be a lot of wind or snow.

A winter storm system moved across the upper Midwest Sunday through Monday morning, producing widespread blowing snow across parts of Minnesota and Iowa, the National Weather Service said. While about 4 inches of snow were reported in Marshall and in the Cottonwood area, snowfall totals were deeper further east. On Monday morning, New Ulm had reported 6.5 inches of snow, while reports from the Lake Crystal and Mankato areas ranged from 8 to 9 inches, the NWS said.

A combination of snow and wind made for poor travel conditions in southwest Minnesota. In Lyon County, wind gusts exceeded 50 miles per hour in some places. The NWS office in Sioux Falls said a 55-mph gust was recorded near Florence around 6:45 a.m. Sunday. A 46-mph gust was recorded at the Marshall airport at 9:10 p.m. Sunday.

In response to the blizzard conditions, The Minnesota Department of Transportation advised no travel on state highways across southwest Minnesota on Sunday and overnight. Part of Highway 71 between Redwood Falls and U.S. Highway 14 was also closed for part of Monday morning, due to drifting snow and vehicles blocking the roadway.

On Sunday, Gov. Tim Walz declared a peacetime emergency, authorizing the Minnesota National Guard to provide support for emergency winter storm operations. The Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office requested National Guard assistance to respond to the severe weather and rescue stranded motorists, the Governor’s Office said.

The Minnesota State Patrol reported a total of 30 vehicles off the road in its southwest Minnesota district from Sunday through noon Monday. There were also 8 property damage crashes, one injury crash and 4 jackknifed semi trucks reported in the same time frame.

While there might be a small chance of snow early Wednesday, the forecast for the rest of this week is pretty calm, Chapman said. Area temperatures will be “a roller coaster ride,” with daytime temperatures getting into the 30s today, before getting colder again Wednesday through Friday.

“We don’t have anything coming up in the next week that we would call bitterly cold,” Chapman said. However, people should plan on dressing warmly if they are going out for New Year celebrations, he said. NWS forecasts showed daytime temperatures reaching highs in the 20s Wednesday through Saturday, before warming up a little on Sunday.