Trading Clouds For Wind

The fairly active weather pattern continues today with a few showers across the area, especially in the southeast. One shower is headed for Sioux Falls as I write this. Well, looks like we will see additional showers this afternoon with the "heating" that will take place. Of course, that's only a relative term because it won't be all that hot. The low responsible for the clouds and showers still looks like it will hang around through Saturday morning and then finally kick it's way out of here. But what I mean by the title of this blog is that we will get rid of the clouds and showers on Sunday and Monday but it may not be all that nice of a day. Looks like the roaring fall winds will be returning to South Dakota for the latter half of your weekend. A cold front will likely swing it's way through the area on Sunday. Behind it, cooler weather will fly in.... literally. The image below shows the wind speeds behind the cold front on Sunday evening whipping upwards of 40 knots at 850mb. Even though these winds are a good 4000-5000 feet above the surface, with the potential for really good mixing occurring on Sunday, these winds could find their way down to the surface. This means that we could be dealing with 50+ mph gusts at the surface.

So, when we finally get some good sunshine, the winds will be raging. So I guess you have to pick YOUR lesser of two evils to find a good day in the near future; clouds or wind? The choice is yours!

~KDLT Meteorologist Cody Matz