Active Weather (and Finally, a Chance of Snow)

Okay, I guess I got your attention with that title. The weather will be a bit more active in the next few days (through about the middle of next week, or about April 7 or 8). One system will be bringing mostly rain to eastern North Dakota and the far northwestern corner of Minnesota today and Friday. Parts of north-central Minnesota (including Grand Rapids) may see a few showers from this system as well. The system may draw enough cold air into it that there will be a chance of mixed precipitation as the system exits late Friday and early Saturday. Temperatures will slowly return to levels closer to average for this time of year.

There will be a couple days break with Easter Sunday and Monday bringing relatively nice weather, although there may still be chances of some scattered rain.

A second storm system will enter the central U.S. late Tuesday and move east and northeast to the western Great Lakes by Thursday. This system has a better chance of bringing significant precipitation to northern Minnesota because it will have better access to moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Just who sees the heaviest precipitation remains to be seen, however, as it's still too far ahead to forecast the exact track of the storm. This storm could also bring a risk of accumulating snow in some places, although hopefully not too much.