Heaps of Snow and Updates

First lets give you an update on travel conditions. Blizzard Warnings remain in effect for the majority of South Dakota which has I-90 closed from Rapid City to the Minnesota border. I-29 is closed from Sioux City to the Canadian border. No travel advisories are shown everywhere else in the red. Check http://www.safetravelusa.com/ for the latest road conditions or call 511, but mainly, just stay home. The Sioux Falls Regional Airport is also closed until Saturday at 10:00am.

Second, here's a look at how much snow many of us woke up to this Christmas morning (keep in mind these are 24 hour totals so it doesn't include the first wave of snow we saw on Wednesday):

According to the National Weather Service, snow reports in the north ranged from two to five inches.

Third, lets take a look at what's going on right now. This is the surface map of current conditions...

The areas in pink are showing really low visibility, you can see there are several notches on the wind barbs, meaning we have some very strong winds kicking up the snow that's falling which gives us those white out conditions. Some places have seen wind gusts as high as 57 miles per hour. Another thing to note on this map is how all the wind barbs seem to circle around one spot in western Iowa. That's where this monster area of low pressure is currently located and it's not going to move much over the next 24 hours. Which means... more snow. (In case you don't know what all those little symbols and numbers mean, here's a quick refresher:

~KDLT Meteorologists Jesse Ritka and Cody Matz