KDLT Weather

It's been an awfully rainy month of October so far, and we've been tallying up some of the numbers we could find. Pretty impressive stuff for a lot of us. This animation below is for Sioux Falls & vicinity, but shows just how much rainfall we've actually picked up through today:

We're seeing a very fine line tonight between rain and rain/snow and snow with our showers toward the Southeast. We'll be seeing some flakes mix in overnight tonight across much of the area - but then tomorrow we start to see chances for clearing to work its way into the area:

We've been seeing decent amounts of rainfall all day long, and some of our area cities are getting some major ponding in the roadways. Check out this map of area rainfall totals:

We've talked a bit on this KDLT Weather Blog about how boundaries are where weather events like to form. Just like humans who like to take a bike path instead of trying to bike through thick weeds or trees, ...

We found an interesting news headline on the Sioux Falls National Weather Service office. It talked about a record cold start to October. Most of us probably figured it was somewhere near that, but it has been confirmed. ...

Things sure are looking winter-like over the past few days. We tallied up some of the interesting weather statistics related to snow we could find, and check these out:

It's been very winter-like outside over the past few days. In Sioux Falls we picked up 1.3 to 2.1 inches of snow during our latest snowstorm.With another storm on the way, you are probably wondering, "Are we going to get more snow?" The answer to that is most likely, yes.

Another snowstorm in the works for tonight to tomorrow. Take a look at this map below, our Futurecast computer model's thoughts on this current storm. The things to take from this are A) the length of time we see snow in the area and B) the little blurb that shows up near the end of the system. ...

As much as we hate to do it - we've started trying to figure out how much snow we're going to get. If you read through Cody's post below, and my post below that - you can start to see some trends showing up... ...

We're watching this next system for a couple of days now - and it seems like it's finally time to break the news: we might see our first snowflakes of the season fall late Thursday into the very early hours of Friday.

So are you liking the rain? Or do you want some sunshine. We put our zoomed in Futurecast model that we showed during our 5 & 6pm shows onto our KDLT Weather Blog to show you something good in the forecast. ...

We're playing with some of our new weather technology, as you've probably noticed, in our KDLT Weather Center. One thing that is new for us is a product called Rain:Vision where we get a more high-resolution ...

We've been watching this storm develop over the last few days... and it is finally close to its arrival.You can see through this 4 second video clip below what kind of future rainfall our Futurecast computer models are seeing in our neck of the woods Thursday through Friday night.

First we start with the winds - already picking up in some spots as I write this to around 25mph sustained, gusts over 30mph... that continues for tomorrow.Then comes the showers. Most of us will see rain hold off until overnight Wednesday to Thursday morning. ...