Staying Windy

A brief reprieve from the winds this morning but they will return with a vengeance this afternoon but this time, from the South instead of the North. Now, that will be a warming wind as it usually is. Warm of course is a relative term because temperatures aren't going to get all that warm but they will be warmer then the past couple of days. That South wind will really be cranking tonight as shown by the picture below. This is the 850mb chart again but a little bit different look to it because it comes from a different source.

But you can see the wind barbs that I have circled over Eastern South Dakota that are topping 60 knots (about 75 mph). But thankfully, these winds are going to be crossing the area at night because with the typical inversion that we get at night, it is tough to bring winds from the upper atmosphere down to the surface. So, we may see wind gusts of 25 or 30 mph, but nowhere close to 60 or 70.

Its going to be a couple of windy days to start this week but the good news is that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day is shaping up to be pretty calm.

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz