Drought in Minnesota, November 1 to 15, 2022

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
1224 AM CDT Tue Nov 1 2022

.UPDATE...
Issued at 829 PM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022

No changes planned to the tonight period forecast.

UPDATE Issued at 617 PM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022

See below for an aviation forecast discussion for the 00Z TAFs.

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.SHORT TERM...(This Evening through Tuesday Night)
Issued at 329 PM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022

The main challenges in the near term are temperatures and elevated
fire danger. Upper level zonal flow tonight will give way to a more
southwesterly flow on Tuesday and Tuesday night as a trough digs
down the west coast.

At the surface, a weak surface trough over the western High Plains
will become reinforced by an approaching low tonight, then a fairly
tight pressure gradient sets up over the region between high
pressure to the east and the low to the west, especially Tuesday
afternoon and Tuesday night. Southerly winds will become breezy in
the afternoon and will usher warmer air into the region, with well
above normal temperatures expected. The breezy winds will continue
through the nighttime hours, with some gusts in excess of 30 mph
possible along the downslope region of the Sisseton Hill late
Tuesday night.

Elevated fire danger will become a concern Tuesday afternoon and
evening, with warm temperatures, low relative humidity, and the
breezy conditions. The area with the lowest relative humidity will
be across southwestern parts of the CWA, and have therefore issued a
Red Flag Warning effective Tuesday afternoon into early Tuesday
evening.

Low temperatures tonight will be in the 30s. High temperatures on
Tuesday will be in the lower to mid 70s, with lows Tuesday night in
the mid 40s to lower 50s.

.LONG TERM...(Wednesday through Monday)
Issued at 329 PM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022

The models are relatively similar through much of the forecast, but
do diverge some toward the weekend and early next week. At the start
of the period, a deep trof will be digging into the western CONUS,
with downstream ridging over the Mississippi River valley. During
the process of deepening, the upper trof starts to take on a split
flow character as some energy ejecting northeast drags the northern
portion of the trof to the east, but leaves the southern part as a
temporary cutoff upper low over the desert southwest. That southwest
low will gradually get picked up and shoved northeast over the
weekend as more energy dives into the northwest CONUS. Meanwhile, at
the surface, a cold front will gradually sink southeast across the
CWA Wed-Thu. The airmass ahead of the front will remain quite dry,
thus pcpn chances are very low with the front. Behind the front,
some light overrunning pcpn may occur Thu night into Friday, but
coverage looks sparse and amounts light. EPS/GEFS/GEPS ensemble qpfs
also suggest most of the pcpn with the system will fall east and
south of the ABR CWA.

Concerning temperatures, ahead of the front, it will be quite warm
with temperatures well above normal as H850 temps soar into the
positive double digits, a couple record maxes could be eclipsed.
Behind the front, a return to seasonal temperatures is anticipated.

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.AVIATION...(For the 06Z TAFS through 06Z Tuesday Night)
Issued at 1221 AM CDT Tue Nov 1 2022

Terminals KABR,KATY,KPIR,KMBG

VFR conditions are forecast to prevail across the area through the
TAF valid period. Later after 00Z Wednesday, strong low level
southerly winds are forecast to develop just above the surface,
which could create low level windshear conditions.

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.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
SD...Red Flag Warning from 1 PM this afternoon to 8 PM CDT this
     evening for SDZ033-035>037-045-048-051.

MN...None.
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UPDATE...Dorn
SHORT TERM...Parkin
LONG TERM...TDK
AVIATION...Connelly

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Aberdeen SD
303 AM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022

MNZ039-046-SDZ003>011-015>023-033>037-045-048-051-010815-
Traverse-Big Stone-Corson-Campbell-McPherson-Brown-Marshall-Roberts-
Walworth-Edmunds-Day-Dewey-Potter-Faulk-Spink-Clark-Codington-Grant-
Hamlin-Deuel-Stanley-Sully-Hughes-Hyde-Hand-Jones-Lyman-Buffalo-
303 AM CDT Mon Oct 31 2022 /203 AM MDT Mon Oct 31 2022/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for west central Minnesota,
central South Dakota, north central South Dakota and northeast
South Dakota.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Fire danger will be on the increase Tuesday and Wednesday with
breezy south winds and temperatures 20 to 25 degrees above average.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

Connelly