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KEY MESSAGES

- Advisory level winds are expected Thursday across eastern North Dakota and the Red River valley behind a cold front passage.

- Best chance for widespread freezing temperatures will be Friday night.

..Freezing Temperatures Possible Friday Night

Guidance continues to bring colder air into the area following Thursday's cold front. Low temperatures Friday morning are expected to be in the lower 30s, but with lingering cloud cover. A better chance of upper 20s and low 30s will be Friday night into Saturday morning as cloud cover is expected to diminish by midday Friday.

AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY/

Issued at 626 PM CDT Wed Oct 14 2026

Satellite and surface observation trends show VFR conditions are finally starting to arrive in the KDVL area. However, the back edge of the persistent MVR status area is still slower to erode in eastern ND than guidance has indicated throughout the day and pessimistic adjustments have been made to linger this into the evening hours across eastern ND/northwest MN before improvement to VFR becomes more likely due to a more definitive shift in surface pattern/winds. After a period of VFR conditions later tonight into midday Thursday a cold front moves into northeast ND and far northwest MN returning MVFR and eventually IFR stratus to the region (IFR more likely at KDVL Thursday afternoon). This will eventually overspread the entire region Thursday evening and likely persist.

Winds are currently light and variable, but with the approach of low pressure to the west should shift to the south and southwest overnight increasing. Behind the cold front winds will turn to the west-northwest and increase with gusts 30kt or higher likely over parts of eastern ND Thursday afternoon.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

ND...Wind Advisory from 10 AM Thursday to 1 AM CDT Friday for NDZ006>008-014>016-024-026>030-038-039-049-052-054. MN...Wind Advisory from 10 AM Thursday to 1 AM CDT Friday for MNZ001-004-007.