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Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD
Issued by NWS Aberdeen, SD
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232 FXUS63 KABR 162331 AAA AFDABR Area Forecast Discussion...UPDATED National Weather Service Aberdeen SD 631 PM CDT Wed Jul 16 2025 .KEY MESSAGES... - Highs Thursday will be 10 to 15 degrees below normal. - There is a 30-60% chance of showers and thunderstorms Thursday night through Friday morning. No severe weather is anticipated. - More unsettled weather returns Sunday into Monday, Tuesday night, and again Thursday, with around a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Organized severe weather may return Sunday or Sunday evening to mainly central SD. && .UPDATE... Issued at 626 PM CDT Wed Jul 16 2025 See below for an aviation forecast discussion for the 00Z TAFs. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 347 PM CDT Wed Jul 16 2025 A drier airmass continues to slowly move in. It has resulted in weakening showers as they shift from central to northeastern SD this afternoon. Much cooler air has also been able to move in behind the light steady rain showers, with temperatures currently in the 50s north of a line from PIR to Ipswich. A look at the latest satellite imagery and surface map, there were plenty of stratus clouds over the SD and southern MN along with some shallow cumulus development over south central SD where clearing had briefly developed. The surface high at 20Z was located over northwestern ND and southern Canada. This ridge continues to sink south, with the 500mb zonal flow being replaced by slight ridging to zonal flow tonight through Thursday. The surface high will move across the Dakotas tonight before exiting across Minnesota Thursday afternoon. Highs will be in the 70s Thursday as winds shift out of the southeast. The strongest winds will be over central South Dakota, gusting 20 to near 30 mph. After dewpoints in the 40s tonight, they will rise back into the 50s Thursday and into the 60s Friday as the next surface low organizes over western SD/NE. Showers and a few thunderstorms over north central SD Thursday evening look to expand across much of the area by daybreak Friday. Severe weather is not expected at this time. The main surface low will be across KS/NE Friday night into Saturday, with another ridge over south central Canada and ND. Instability will increase over the weekend, with some of the NCAR medium-range real-time convective hazard forecasts showing the potential for isolated to scattered severe storms as we move into Sunday or Sunday night. There`s enough uncertainty at this point to not get too confident on the potential however, as even the next surface low doesn`t move into western SD until Monday afternoon. There is room for lots of change between now and then. Confidence is higher on the idea of high temperatures rising back into the mid 80s to mid 90s by Monday and Tuesday of next week. && .AVIATION /00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY/... Issued at 626 PM CDT Wed Jul 16 2025 Terminals KABR,KATY,KPIR,KMBG The only thing that could interrupt good VFR conditions over the next 24 hours, under surface high pressure influence, is late night/early morning radiation fog. Winds may stay up enough, though, to keep fog from forming. The Glacial Lakes region (KATY) could produce some fog off all the various lakes, though. Will watch and see what happens. && .ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...None. MN...None. && $$ UPDATE...10 DISCUSSION...06 AVIATION...10