Snow & New 7-Day Format

Greetings from the KDLT weather department. We have been anxiously following our snowstorm coming in - however weak or strong it ends up - as well as anxiously waiting to unveil our new 7-day forecast format. This new format will make a lot more sense visually to help you understand where the overnight lows will occur - as well as moving the percent chance of precipitation to the bottom instead of the top of the slides.

Hopefully you like it. If you have any questions or suggestions for this graphic or any others feel free to post your ideas here or to email us at weather@kdlt.com to suggest things.

As for the snow - this storm has been throwing us for a loop all week, but it's finally starting to show its true colors. It seems like our snowfall forecast 2 days ago has ended up being our final forecast. Yesterday the locations ended up right, just not the numbers - we were talking about up to an inch of snow instead of an inch+, but that has changed.


What we are waiting to see as I write this are any snowfall updates. If we get any reports of heavier snow we'll have to raise some of the forecast totals. For now you can probably expect 1-2" of snow in the Sioux Falls area. It seems like toward Mobridge in the North and Brookings in the East we can expect 2 or 2+ inches of snow. It should be interesting to see how this all ends up as you have probably seen the blog posts of the past couple of days. For how low the totals will end up it sure has been an interesting storm to forecast.

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer