Keep your guard up
While the Red River of the North continues a slow fall at Fargo/Moorhead it continues to climb towards an expected crest of more than 50 feet at Grand Forks. This would be about four feet shy of the record 1997 flood.
Trouble is on the horizon. Yesterdays snowstorm dumped heavy snow from western Kansas through Kansas City to the northern suburbs of Chicago. A quiet but chilly day was enjoyed in the Northland.
We are watching a new storm develop to our west that has prompted Winter Storm Watches and Blizzard Watches for portions of the Dakotas to northwest Wisconsin.
Currently the track of this low pressure will take the heaviest snow from about Aberdeen to Alexandria and towards Duluth.
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Probabilities of heavy snow with the storm Monday night and Tuesday
One thing that is very bothersome is the very strong winds that will slosh the high water of the Red, creating erosion and battering the dikes for more than Thirty-six hours. Additional, unwelcomed moisture is likely to fall in the headwater region of the Red River near Wahpeton and through the Minnesota and Mississippi River Valleys as well.
Early forecast of anticipated moisture, mostly falling as snow.
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