Wet Weather and Snow . . .

That system is finally here - there have been reports of 6-12 inches of snow already this morning in Deadwood to our west. But we're mainly dealing with the rain and that will be the main story for today. You can see a relatively heavy swatch of rain on top of our area, that's all moving up from Nebraska and it will continue to move north throughout the day.

This of course is future radar - so it's anticipating the area of showers to continue to progress northbound and the snowshowers (in blue) to our west will slowly start to move east into the evening hours. Where the freezing line is will really determine who will see more snow versus rain. Pierre is somewhat on the edge of this line right now, but by the end of the day today and into Friday, we'll see those rain showers switch to snow showers all the way from Aberdeen down through Mitchell and Chamberlain. Lesser amounts of snow are expected on that line, but as you move west on I-90, travel conditions will become worse due to heavier amounts of snow (3-6 inches in our viewing area) and strong winds that will greatly reduce visibilities.

Stay safe and try to stay dry - though staying dry will be a hard thing to do today, we'll get a good half an inch to an inch of rain from this system, with locally higher amounts definitely possible.

~KDLT Meteorologist Jesse Ritka