PM Weather

0:00Winter is not over. Across the northern plains or in the mid-last, despite all of the warm, weather and spring-like conditions that have occurred recently. I meteorologist Drew Lerner for the Red River Farm Network. How does negative and positive single-digit low temperatures sound to you right now? Well, it's going to get that cold again as we get out into the first part of next week, actually. It looks like Monday and Tuesday mornings both will be downright nippy across the region to say the least. And on Sunday morning, we're probably going to be seeing already a transition into single-digit and teen lows. What intarnation is going on? You may ask, well, we are still stuck in a pattern that is repeating over and over again. This is a pattern of 45-day cycle bringing cold air out of the Arctic. And this is the anniversary of the last of very cold air mass that occurred in late January, early February that brought freezes to Florida and the central Gulf of America coast. And our temperatures will be slipping a lot colder.

1:03Now, we've had all kinds of warm weather across North America here recently with severe weather last night from Texas through Kansas into Illinois and Indiana. And more of that today in the eastern parts of the mid-last, we are going to already be in a cooler mode now for a while. Our afternoon temperatures today are expected to be stuck in the upper 20s and 30s in the northern parts of our region while 40s will be common in South Dakota in 30s and lower 40s in the rest of the listening area. Now, tomorrow, we'll likely see a bit of a warm up. It'll be the last of the warmer days for a while. Temperatures will run from 30s and 40s in North Dakota and northern Minnesota to the 50s and 60s in South Dakota and upper 40s and 50s in Southern Minnesota. We will look for the highs on Friday to start trending colder, which 20s and 30s common. There may be a few lower 40s down in the lower parts of the Missouri River Valley in South Dakota. And then on Saturday and Sunday, it will be just pretty chilly across the region in general. Sunday's highs will be stuck in the teens and 20s in the north and 20s and lower 30s in the south. Now, we do expect some

2:07snow to develop as the colder air comes around. The first round of that will occur. As we go forward through the day tomorrow, we'll see snow in northern Eastern North Dakota into northern Minnesota. Cumulations run two to six inches. The southern parts of region, though, will stay snow-free. There will be another opportunity for snow, a second round of it that will begin as we get into the day on Friday. And it will continue into Saturday, might even linger Saturday night. It'll come in a couple of waves. We'll see one to three, maybe some local three to five inch accumulations across a part of the region. Now, this system needs to be closely monitored because it could become a much larger storm system, especially over the Midwest. But for right now, between the two events, we're likely to see quite a bit of snow across the region, although the depths will be lightest in the central parts of our listening area. And we will see some increasing wind speeds behind these events, especially late in the weekend. For the Red River Farm Network, on meteorologist Drew Lerner,