PM Weather

0:00Snow and rain will be developing across North Dakota a little bit later today, and it will spread across Minnesota and South Dakota as we go forward through the afternoon and end overnight tonight. I meteorologist Drew Learner for the Red River Farm Network. This event will be primarily a snow event for northern and east central portions of North Dakota and across a big part of northern Minnesota. But areas to the south will see you rain and a little bit of wet snow occurring as we go forward in time. And the farther south you are in South Dakota and Minnesota the more limited the precipitation is likely to be. But we do expect the precipitation to begin. Probably late this morning coming out of the Missouri River Valley area and headed into the eastern parts of the Dakotas and Minnesota. As we get into the latter part of the afternoon, a precipitation will be mostly widespread across the area. I doubt seriously we'll see a lot of great amounts in South Dakota or Southern parts of Minnesota. But nonetheless, there'll be some showers moving into those areas. Snow accumulations will

1:03run from two to as much as six inches across northern and east central parts of North Dakota and northern Minnesota. And there will be a little bit of a breeze taking place as we finish out the afternoon, especially this evening, causing some blowing and drifting of snow. Now the temperatures today won't be too bad across the area. We do expect the temperatures to peak out in the thirties and forties across the north with the snow increasing in the afternoon, the temperatures will likely come down a bit. In contrast though, afternoon temperatures will be in the fifties and sixties across South Dakota and forties and fifties and west central and southern parts of Minnesota. Now this isn't the only storm system we have to deal with. There's going to be another system coming around and it'll be cooler Friday into Saturday when that event begins to occur. Dakota, but it's really not until Friday night into Saturday that we'll see precipitation beginning to evolve. The greatest deep precipitation in the second event though will hold off until Saturday night going into Sunday. And there's a reason to be closely monitoring the system because

2:06it does have potential to become a very intense storm system, especially in the upper mid-wast and Great Lakes region. And if that does happen, we will likely see some blowing and drifting of snow and some heavy accumulations developing in eastern parts of South Dakota and southern Minnesota as we get out to Saturday night going into Sunday morning. So watch that storm system closely. At the moment it looks like we'll see three to nine inches of snow and southern Minnesota and South Eastern South Dakota much lighter amounts to the north. In fact, a large part of North Dakota and northern Minnesota will only see a dusting of snow. The storm system though does need to be closely monitored. It will be a bigger event for the Great Lakes region. Our temperatures are going to turn colder behind that system and will likely see low temperatures in the negative and positive single digits as we go out towards the end of the weekend into early next week. An afternoon highs will be struggling to get out of the 20s. For the Red River Farm Network on Meteorologist Drew Lerner.