Snow For Thursday?

Things are looking mighty interesting for Thursday & Friday of this week. If you just watched our newscast at 6pm tonight you heard me mention that it looks like we are in store for at least a couple of inches of snow. We're going to be following the computer models closely and checking out just how much moisture this system has to work with before we publish official forecast totals, but we like to give you sneak peaks of snow totals.

Here is what one model is thinking, you'll notice the "bullseye" of snowfall in the central 1/3 of South Dakota into Minnesota:

Click on that image for a closer view, and you'll notice computer model predicted 8+" of snow! That would be crazy. If you think that's bad you should see this next one:

The computer model above is a less reliable one, but we try to at least consider what each model has to offer (they all have various weaknesses & biases) before immediately discarding it. This computer model known as the NAM (North American Mesoscale) is predicting that we'll be in the bullseye in Sioux Falls, with close to 8 inches of snow!

Hopefully this doesn't happen. Monday is much too early to put out numbers that are set in stone, and another concern is the cooling for Thursday. If we don't cool down enough some of that could fall as drizzle or light rain. As you know, we've dodged most of the big storms in Sioux Falls this season.

Have a great night!

~KDLT Meteorologist Aaron Shaffer