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Winter Impacts Potential Tonight-Friday

Today

Colder air moves south behind a front tonight. An upper wave will be moving northeast and bring a chance for wintry precipitation from central into northeast North Dakota and far northwest Minnesota after midnight thru Friday morning. Precipitation type will be a wintry mix of snow and freezing rain. Impacts from any freezing rain or snow is likely to be highly variable depending on temperature of roads and other surfaces. Friday morning commute may be affected in some areas.

Very large temperature difference across the area today, with colder air moving into northeast North Dakota and warm air remains in southeast North Dakota into Minnesota. Gusty north winds on the cold side of the front and gusty south to southwest winds on the warm side of the front. In the warm sector, relative humidity's will drop into the 25 to 30 percent range bringing near critical fire weather conditions this afternoon.