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Marine Weather and Tide Forecast for Laporte, MN

February 19, 2025 5:02 AM CST (11:02 UTC) Change Location
Sunrise 7:07 AM   Sunset 5:43 PM
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Area Discussion for Grand Forks, ND
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FXUS63 KFGF 190953 AFDFGF

Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Grand Forks ND 353 AM CST Wed Feb 19 2025

KEY MESSAGES

- Excessive cold warning through Wednesday morning for west central Minnesota and much of eastern North Dakota for sub 40 below zero wind chills.

- Cold advisory for NW Minnesota and the far northern Red River Valley with wind chills in the 30 below to 40 below zero range through this morning

- Big warmup arrives this weekend with highs above freezing all areas Sunday.

DISCUSSION
Issued at 339 AM CST Wed Feb 19 2025

Synopsis

Center of high pressure is over the Missouri River region in between Bismarck and Pierre. Temperatures in E ND/NW MN are running near or a few degrees warmer than 24 hours ago. Winds are 5 kts or so and with not as cold temperatures, the wind chills are in the -20 to -35 range, except a few sites in E ND or WC MN around -40F. So the current warning and advisory headlines are working out just fine and no changes will be made.

There is considerable high and then mid cloud cover spreading from east to west thru southern parts of NW Ontario and northeast MN into parts of NW MN and far NE ND. Cloud area will drop south-southwest today with thickest clouds in NW MN as 500 mb wave in north central MN moves into southern MN by end of today. Some flurries possible into areas around Bemidji and did blend with WFO DLH and included some mention of flurries there.
Main moisture though looks to remain east of our area though.

With ridge axis still just west of our fcst area as high is dropping south-southeast....will see north-northwest wind 10 kts in RRV and into MN and then tonight near calm wind as high pressure ridge moves overhead.

Based on fcst low temps some marginal wind chill advisory criteria may be met in parts of E ND west of the valley...so one last advisory may need to be issued for DVL basin for this upcoming night/Thu AM. Otherwise we are done with cold headlines.

Warm up ensues as anticipated. I am sure there will be more variable temperatures than currently fcst over the area due to snowpack conditions. Warmer perhaps than fcst in the Grand Forks area where less snow cover exists and colder in other areas where snowpack is not as old and whiter. Regardless a big warm up over what we have had the last 2 weeks.

500 mb becomes more west-northwest as the warm up ensues...and with this will start to see more 500 mb short waves move in from the north Pacific and thru western into central Canada and the north central US giving at least some chances for precipitation.
Track of each wave is uncertain as expected. Two systems do look a bit stronger, enough to bring light precipitation. One late Sunday and the other late Tuesday. Late Sunday one looks to move through a pretty mild airmass where light rain is preferred.
Late Tuesday one may see more light snow chances...but it is far out and track is uncertain.



AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z THURSDAY/
Issued at 1132 PM CST Tue Feb 18 2025

VFR conditions prevail at all TAF sites tonight into Wednesday morning. SKC gives way to BKN clouds at KTVF and KBJI prior to sunrise, with clouds spreading further into the area by midday.
VFR conditions are expected to prevail at most sites Wednesday, with a chance for MVFR ceilings at KBJI as ceilings fall slowly through the day. Winds look to remain at or below 10 knots through most of the TAF period.

FGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES
ND...Cold Weather Advisory until 10 AM CST this morning for NDZ008- 016-027.
Extreme Cold Warning until 10 AM CST this morning for NDZ006- 007-014-015-024-026-028>030-038-039-049-052>054.
MN...Cold Weather Advisory until 10 AM CST this morning for MNZ001- 004>009-013>017.
Extreme Cold Warning until 10 AM CST this morning for MNZ002- 003-022>024-027>032-040.


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AirportDistAgeWind ktVisSkyWeatherAirDewPtRHinHg
KBJI BEMIDJI RGNL,MN 18 sm7 minNW 0710 smOvercast-9°F-17°F70%30.68

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