The Latest on the Christmas Storm

The weather is settling down for the rest of this week after a duo of smallish weather systems have produced scattered snow, strong wind, and icy roads in spots the past two days. The only concern drivers are expected to have the rest of this week is scattered icy stretches of road due to daytime snow melt being redeposited onto road surfaces at night and early in the morning.

However, a big storm system still apppears to be headed our direction for the weekend. Although details are still impossible to forecast at this range, confidence is high that the storm will directly impact the Dakotas and Minnesota.

Wherever the main low-pressure center tracks Sunday into Monday, the heaviest snow is likely to fall north and west of the low, with a dramatic decrease in snow near the low center due to the intrusion of dry air from the south. Even in the zone in and around the low, travel may become difficult eventually, depending on the timing available moisture and cold air wrapping around the low. Parts of the region are likely to get heavy snow and blizzard conditions. Other areas will get lighter snow and blizzard conditions after the low has passed. And areas southeast of the low will likely not get much other than rain or some mixed precipitation and then possibly a little light snow Monday.

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