8-27-19 Northern Plains: Windy today with scat. showers focused north and east…overall a drier pattern over the next week. N.

Today’s video:

Observed rainfall up here over the past 24 hours:

Simulated radar guidance through the rest of today into Wednesday morning is below…favoring on and off light rain rains continuing to push east across North Dakota mainly, exiting fully out of the state by 7-9pm tonight. For Minnesota showers start working in more widespread after noon to the north, sinking south throughout the afternoon and finally pushing east daybreak Wednesday morning in northeastern parts of the state. Want to make sure that we know that for most us, this its still an overall dry next 36 hours as a whole regarding the short-term forecast:

Emphasis on this rain event is very LIGHT, with areas that see rainfall anticipated to see generally less than 0.25″ total here in the short-term:

Wednesday as a whole is another dry day across the forecast area…we do think another bout of right rain showers is possible in this area circled in red below from west to east, from 10pm west to 5am east…this can offer up another scattered 0.1-0.3″ near the Canadian border:

Here’s the weather snapshot for Friday, dealing with scattered light to moderate rainfall mainly across SD and NW ND Friday, and SE SD to far southern MN into Saturday AM:

Remaining precipitation guidance through next Monday is below. This really puts the emphasis on that this pattern over the next week is much below normal regarding rainfall potential, also much cooler than normal seen by our week 1 temp outlook below this as well:

Latest wind guidance as we head into the middle/late part of the work-week:

North Dakota:

Crosby:

Jamestown:

Fargo:

South Dakota:

Pierre:

Aberdeen:

Sioux Falls:

Minnesota:

Worthington:

Grand Rapids:

Minneapolis:

Rochester: