textproduct: Grand Forks

KEY MESSAGES

- A quick moving system Wednesday brings rain, wind and snow. There is a 20 percent chance for advisory level impacts from accumulating and blowing snow.

..Wednesday's potential for advisory level winter impacts

Ensemble guidance continues to strongly favor a track of this clipper that would keep vast majority of snowfall north of the international border. That being said, there is a large subset of guidance that still eeks 1-3 inches of snowfall just over the board (particularly along the Minnesota international border), concurrent with gusty winds.

There is also a small subset of guidance that blossoms a larger area of snowfall over our area, still mainly north of Highway 200. This scenario features moderate to heavy snow rates quickly progressing through west to east across the area.

Timing of the clipper and its snow favors a passage during daytime hours, which would mitigate the potential for impactful snow accumulations with the help of April's insolation. Thus, main impacts would likely be tied to reduced visibility due to falling snow concurrent with gusty winds leading to blowing snow. This wouldn't be the 'normal' blowing snow that our region sees, and would need to be tied to falling snow with gusty winds.

Ultimately, we are still maintaining around a 20% chance for advisory level winter impacts from snowfall and reduced visibility.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z WEDNESDAY/

Issued at 601 PM CDT Mon Apr 6 2026

Winds around 10 kt out of the north will subside to light and variable between 00Z - 06Z, after which winds increase out of the south becoming gusty around 20kt by the late morning hours 15Z - 18Z in eastern North Dakota. There is a low confidence chance for fog around KFAR and KBJI tonight between 09Z-13Z.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

ND...None. MN...None.