Blizzard to Close Out February
February has a nasty departing gift for the northern Plains: a fierce blizzard.
The impending blizzard is the second in a double whammy of snow events for the northern Plains, the first one being the snowstorm that closed out this weekend.
The blizzard will unfold tonight from central South Dakota to southeastern North Dakota and central Minnesota.
Communities such as Aberdeen, S.D., and Fargo, N.D., will be faced with more than a foot of burying snow and extremely poor visibility as strong winds blow and drift the snow around.
Travel will become nearly impossible for a time on interstates 29, 90 and 94. Parents should prepare for a high possibility that schools will be canceled Wednesday.
Snow will begin across the northern Plains today as a storm system that delivered fresh snow to the mountains from Arizona to Wyoming swings out of the Rockies.
A wintry mix is expected to develop south of the snow zone, within the corridor from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Minneapolis, Minn., and Wausau, Wis.
Farther to the south, the storm will threaten the Arklatex and lower Mississippi Valley with severe weather.
However, it will take until tonight for the storm to intensify into a blizzard.
The blizzard will wind down across the northern Plains by Wednesday afternoon as the heaviest snow zone shifts to the upper Great Lakes. Snow and ice will also spread to the Northeast for the last day of February.
Wednesday afternoon, a weakened state of the storm will confine any blizzard conditions to places along the western shores of lakes Superior, northern Michigan and Huron. Duluth, Minn., is one such city as risk for this harsh winter weather.
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