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Storm Impacting the Northwest U.S.; Fire Weather Conditions in Southern California; Severe Weather in the South

A Pacific storm is bringing areas of low elevation rain, moderate to heavy mountain snow, and high winds to the Northwest. Strong Santa Ana winds and very dry conditions are producing elevated to critical fire weather conditions in southern California. Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms are possible through early Wednesday morning across parts of northeast Texas into western Tennessee. Read More >

Scattered rain showers will traverse across the forecast area today through tonight with lingering light rain over south central South Dakota early Friday morning. Most locations will receive a half inch or less in rainfall amounts. However, models continue to differ from each other a bit, creating uncertainty in exact amounts. A wetter scenario would lead to rainfall amounts up to 0.75" for portions of central to northeastern SD into west central MN.
Showers will begin to increase from south to north across the region tonight through Thursday. Highest chances for precip and amounts will generally align along and south of the US Hwy 212 corridor. Still some uncertainty in this as it all depends on areal coverage of shower activity.
The Climate Prediction Center is indicating that the final few days of April could be warmer than normal and wetter than normal.