Warm-Up For Sunday & Monday - Snow On Tuesday?

Get ready for some warm temperatures for this time of year in the southern 2/3 of South Dakota and into southwest Minnesota! Us folks in the South can enjoy some pretty nice weather to start off the week - with temperatures held a little more in check farther to the North thanks to a smaller storm system making its way through North Dakota over the next 2 days. After the brief warm-up (with cold to the North) we see snow showers move in. Most of us in SE SD and NW IA and SW MN can look for just flurries to *maybe* a dusting of snow out of that next system Tuesday. Toward the North it's a different picture.

Here's what some of the models are showing as far as snow totals are concerned:

Right now I would expect around 3-4 inches for the Aberdeen - but if you read the caption on the image above, you can see there is still some wiggle room for more or less snow in the area. Stay tuned!

As for those warmer temperatures.... I like to show you that one similar model-forecasted image of statistical types of temperatures. Here is the latest one for our area for Monday, and you can see the contrast there:

You can see forecasted 30s to 40s over southern South Dakota quickly contrasting up to single digit temperatures in the southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba areas. Some of those colder temperatures will affect us as we head into Tuesday, but not quite as drastically as you might think given those colder temperatures in southern Canada.

Have a great start to your week! Check back with us if you are concerned about how much snow we'll be seeing.

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer