Weather Story

Winter Weather Advisory

Precipitation Timing and Type

Expected Snowfall

Ice Accumulations

The first of two rounds of wintry weather will return today and persist into tonight and Thursday. A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for north central and northeast SD into west central MN. Precipitation will initially fall as snow this morning into the early afternoon but then mix with rain at times or become a wintry mix during the afternoon into tonight. Gusty easterly winds may lead to patchy blowing snow and drifting which would cause slight visibility reductions, but whiteout conditions are unlikely.

Precipitation will start this morning as snow and continue into Thursday afternoon. As temperatures warm during the day, the snow may transition to rain/snow mix or freezing rain. Areas that get freezing rain could see ice accumulations of a glaze to 0.2 inches.

The first round of snow will move into central SD this morning and into northeast SD/west-central MN this afternoon. It will become mixed with rain at times or transition to a wintry mix as temperatures warm during the day. A few unknown factors still remain which continues to lead to some uncertainty in these amounts.

The first round of wintry precipitation moving into the area today into tonight will contain the possibility of light freezing rain. East-central sections of South Dakota have the best chance to see this freezing rain later today into tonight. A light glaze up to a couple tenths of an inch of ice accumulation will be possible in these areas by late tonight into Thursday.