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0:00A sequence of weather disturbances will be moving across the northern plains and upper midwest as we go forward through the next five to seven days. And that will result in some travel disruption and accumulation of snow. I'm meteorologist Drew Learner for the Red River Farm Network. We do expect a periods of snow and rain to impact the region of disturbance passing through the region overnight. We'll be exiting out of the region this morning, but a little bit later in the day today another disturbance will come along and some showers of both rain snow will impact South Dakota and spread into central portions of Minnesota. This event will likely become a little better defined as we get into the evening overnight tonight and will likely put down a little bit of snow accumulation with this event. And it will focus on South Dakota and central through southern portions of Minnesota, where we'll see a dusting upwards to two inches of new snow. There may be several counties and central parts of Minnesota that could come up with a little bit greater amount.

1:00Then North Dakota and Northern Minnesota will largely be missed by this event. Another disturbance pushing across the region Thursday afternoon into Friday will be a little bit more aggressive. It will impact North Dakota and the northern half of Minnesota. It will be a rain and snow event and if you're close to the Canada border, you can expect to see some moderate to heavy snow fall occur with this event. It looks as though probably the northern and eastern parts of North Dakota will come up with snow accumulations will run from two to around six or seven inches. And there's potential for something a little bit greater in a few counties, a close watch on that distribution of snow will be warranted. Again, this will be a Thursday afternoon into Friday with Thursday night, likely to be the stormiest period of time. That system will be followed by a short term out of cooler weather, but yet another disturbance will push across the northern plains as we go from Friday afternoon or more likely Friday night into Saturday and another dusting to around three inches of snow will come with

2:05this event and it will be a little bit better distributed over the northern and central parts of the region. By the time we get to Sunday, we will have seen snow in quite a bit of the region with a little bit of rain as well. The moisture totals over this period of time will likely run from a couple of tents to three quarters of an inch and it would not be surprising to see a few spots get upwards to close to one inch of moisture northern and eastern North Dakota in the north half of Minnesota, maybe the wettest areas because of that second storm system. Our temperatures will be cold as Sunday and to Monday will look for an afternoon temperatures dropping down into the 20s and 30s and will look for lows at night in the single digits and teens. Until then, temperatures won't be too bad with the warmest readings coming up as we finish out the work week. Think it looks like Thursday afternoon will see temperatures in the 50s and 60s in South Dakota and 30s and 40s elsewhere. For the Red River Farm Network, I'm meteorologist Drew Lerner.