National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

Main period of impacts look to be Thursday overnight into Friday as a period of strong north winds, snow showers and blowing snow move in behind an arctic front. Still quite a bit of uncertainty as to how widespread low visibility from blowing snow will be, so stay tuned!
After today's warm up, an arctic front will drop south thru the area after midnight. Along and behind the front will be snow showers along with strong north-northwest winds and blowing snow. Friday AM commute to be impacted by greatly reduced visibilities in many areas. Snow showers and gusty winds thru the day Friday into the evening. Total snowfall one half inch to 2 inches. Peak wind gusts around 50 mph in the Red River valley Friday morning.