Fun With The Warmth...

Well, you know it's a January thaw when... (insert joke/line here). You know it's a January thaw when you are getting pictures of people ice fishing - in boats! We got a couple great viewer photos sent in that really show what happens when it gets into the upper 40s to low 50s.

Looks like some fun times in Chamberlain today - hopefully they caught some good fish! Remember that you can always email us ANY photo you might have by emailing them to weather@kdlt.com or to me at a_shaffer@kdlt.com.

Now, after discussing the warmth - and there's been a lot of it - we have to discuss some more wintry types of weather for this weekend...

We briefly mentioned it last night in our blog, but there is the potential there for a few inches of snow to slide in from the Southwest Saturday to Sunday and Monday. Right now it's still not very organized, and to be quite honest it looks very odd, but we're seeing snow moving through the area for the weekend along with some thicker clouds.

Typically with a storm system we will not see snow for more than 24 hours - and the computer models are implying about a 48-60 hour snow event, so here's what we are seeing...

Saturday near noon - pretend that this is "future radar" and this is what an extended model is seeing for Saturday:


Then for Monday near noon:


What will likely happen is that this mass of snow showing up will separate itself into 2 separate events. We shall see.

Have a good night and good luck fishing if you are planning on boating in Chamberlain, haha. Just make sure you're careful for thin ice!

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer