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Good afternoon!  Wanted to send a quick update regarding the forecast over the next few days via new data coming in.  We continue to see scattered showers and isolated storms spin around an upper low centered over eastern Kansas.  Past 2-hour radar loop ending at 12:22PM CDT shown below: Forecast…

Today's Video:  http://youtu.be/G9VZTPX28vA?hd=1 Good Tuesday morning everyone! We have light showers ongoing in the Western Dakotas this morning while a cluster of storms is working through Central Minnesota. These storms likely continue to slowly pushes SE throughout the morning hours, continuing into mid-day. Wouldn't rule out an additional 0.5-1.0" under…

Good evening everyone! Temperatures continue to cool off across central and western ND as showers with embedded storms in association with a cold front work across the area. The radar loop shown below is current as of 5:10pm CDT. Out ahead of this boundary, compressional heating has allowed widespread 90s…

Good afternoon everyone! This update provides 18z high-resolution model runs in regards to precipitation over the next couple of days. Numerous shower/storm activity has filled in across portions of KS, southwestern MO, and southeast NE as of 4:25pm CDT. The culprit for this convection is an upper-level low lifting northward…

Video: http://youtu.be/FB7JrX6_90g?hd=1 Today's regional forecast: Forecast radar over the next 24 hours (through 7am CDT Tuesday) showing the rains continuing to lift northward across Kansas today, becoming more numerous this afternoon and especially tonight, creeping north into southeast Nebraska and across western Missouri.   Rain through 7am CDT Tuesday: Widespread…

Today's Video:  http://youtu.be/Z8SpA5Q0pi0?hd=1 Good Monday morning everyone! After a very hot and dry weekend, we do have some light rain showers on the radar this morning. These will persist throughout the daytime hours and slowly sag south as we work into the late evening and overnight hours along a cold…

Good morning everyone! Not much has changed from yesterday as plentiful sunshine remains draped across the region. Areas of smoke originating from West Canadian wildfires are expected to continue across the eastern Dakotas into MN today.  Another day of potential record highs is on tap today across the Dakotas where…

Good Sunday morning everyone! Most people are waking up to plentiful sunshine across the area as of 9:15am CDT. A few cloud decks have begun to work into our southern areas due to an upper-level low south of the region. Some smoke is also present in eastern NE/northwestern KS that…

Good morning! Here's the latest 7-day forecast: We are expecting another round of hit or miss storms this afternoon/evening across the area. Compared to yesterday's storms, I believe coverage will be slightly less (20-30%) along with most of the activity developing north of the Ohio River. Upper-air flow will come…

Good morning everyone! Virtually the whole region is cloud-free this morning with an exception being smoke hanging over the skies, especially in MN. Areas of smoke originating from wildfires in Western Canada are likely to persist across the Northern Plains through the remainder of the weekend.  A few record highs…