Snow Totals and Another Round on the Way!

Sorry if you thought winter was over, here's a look at how much snow you got!

Some individual snow totals:

Pollock-14"

Eureka-12"

Redfield-10"

Lemmon-8"

Selby-8"

Aberdeen-6.1"

Florence-6"

Mobridge-6"

Wilmot-4.5"

Huron-3.5"

Wessington Springs-2.0"

Madison 1.5"

Sioux Falls-1.2"

Pierre-1"

Montrose-0.5"

And if you are interested in how much snow your city saw from this first round... the National Weather Service has a very detailed list of all the observations they received. This is the list for the North and this is the list for the South. And you thought spring was here . . . it felt quite the opposite in Sisseton and in many places in the North due to the winds and the blowing snow, visibilities are still under a half a mile in many places in the NE.

Wind chill values will be in the 20-30 degree below zero range, and so there are wind chill advisories in effect from midnight until 7am, so it will feel like you're in the Arctic if you step outdoors.

Here's one model's prediction for snow from our next system that's heading our way already. The SE tip could finally see a bit of snow... the light pink is 0-1", the fuchsia is 1-2", the turquoise is 2-3". I do think that we'll see more snow than this model is predicting in the south-central part of the state, but estimates are relatively close - for the most part: moderate snow will be in the West and start to taper off as the snow-track heads SE. From my personal analysis I think you can connect the two areas of fuchsia (or 1-2" of snow) and expand the light pink (Tr.-1" of snow) down to the Nebraska border. I'm sure Aaron will give you new estimates in the morning!

Enjoy digging out of the fresh snow - or maybe take the kids out after school to make snow people!

~KDLT Meteorologist Jesse Ritka