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Good afternoon!  With winter approaching, I thought it would be valuable to talk about winter weather forecasting, and what makes it unique, FUN, and challenging.  There is often confusion between sleet, freezing rain, and snow, and the processes causing these types of precipitation.  The goal for this blog is to…

Today's Video: http://youtu.be/YoCgHEbXfEI?hd=1 Good Tuesday Morning everyone! We have some light freezing rain/rain mix working into the Bismarck area this morning:  We'll see this wave of precipitation continue to progress east throughout the day today and work across the Dakotas and drop some light rain into the afternoon. As we…

Good afternoon everyone! We have warmed nicely in some areas while others have proven to stay on the more chilly side. Based on current temperatures across the area this afternoon (3:30pm CST), we are able to pick out in close proximity where snow cover remains across the area. Most locations…

Video: http://youtu.be/nZFOHDw52Wo?hd=1 Good morning!  Great day ahead for most of the region, and dry weather should continue into tomorrow evening.  A disturbance will zip from west to east Tuesday night through Wednesday morning, bringing isolated, light areas of drizzle/freezing drizzle, or flurries, mainly north.  Worth noting as the system works…

Today's Video:  http://youtu.be/vPqtYgD_mCw?hd=1 Good morning everyone! It's very quiet to start the day for most of the area, but there are a few flurries working through Northern Minnesota associated with a weak disturbance this morning. This will lead to some clouds in Minnesota into the afternoon:  Overall, a pretty nice…

Today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmfEgi2qYjw&feature=youtu.be&hd=1 As Isaac mentioned yesterday, a few pockets of freezing fog will continue to be possible through late morning to even noon in spots mainly I-70 and points north with temps widespread into the teens (the darker the color below, the lower the visibility)...this will likely linger longer…

Good morning everyone! Taking a look at current temperatures this morning (as of 9:20am CST), we are finding that it is about as cold as it was Saturday morning. However, some areas are even colder, including eastern ND and southeastern MN. Temperatures area-wide are well into the teens with many…

Good morning everyone! The storm system that brought snow and ice accumulations to far southern MO, especially the Bootheel, is gradually working eastward with most of the precipitation coming to an end across the area. Elsewhere, dry weather has continued to linger and this will be the case today into…

Good morning everyone! Taking a look at current temperatures this morning (as of 9:20am CST), many in the eastern Dakotas into MN have woken up with temperatures dropping well into the single digits with even some negative degree readings showing up in northeastern MN. This excludes southeastern MN where temperatures…

Good morning everyone! The storm system that we have been tracking over the last several days is finally making its appearance in the far southern portions of MO (mainly in the Bootheel) as of 6:20am CST. Snow coverage in general will not expand much farther north than its current position…