textproduct: Grand Forks

KEY MESSAGES

- Light snow of less than 1 inch tonight, with sub-advisory impacts expected.

- Light snow and perhaps some freezing rain will bring a 20 percent chance for advisory level impacts Sunday into Sunday night.

..Snow and mixed precipitation Sunday and Sunday night

Stronger synoptic forcing and even a little bit of frontogenesis with the shortwave coming over top of the ridge on Sunday. Southeasterly winds will bring warmer air and more moisture into the boundary layer. Model soundings show both a warm layer aloft Sunday, and there will also be a loss of ice in the dendritic growth zone that could bring a mix of freezing rain or drizzle on the backside of the system. Probabilities given by NBM for precip type are highest for sleet, but there is enough of a chance for freezing rain or drizzle to give a 20 percent chance for light ice accumulation. Given that any small ice accumulation can cause issues, will continue to monitor this period closely and see if icing probabilities increase.

AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z SATURDAY/

Issued at 1148 AM CST Fri Jan 2 2026

VFR conditions at all TAF sites as there has been mostly mid and high clouds arriving from the northwest. Should see conditions go down to MVFR late tonight into tomorrow morning as more moisture arrives in our forecast area. There are some light precipitation chances overnight into tomorrow morning also, but chances are low enough at the individual airports to keep any -SN mention out of the TAFs. Winds that are light and variable should steady out of the northwest tomorrow morning at less than 10 kts.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

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