Quiet weather to end 2022.

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Search for quiet climate as we shut the yr. Friday will likely be principally sunny with barely above regular temperatures.

New Yr’s Eve may have barely hotter temperatures with highs within the 40s and partly cloudy skies. There will likely be some modifications as we instantly start the brand new yr. A storm system is ready to impression the plains Sunday by way of the center of subsequent week.

Proper now there are two eventualities that might occur. The primary is that the storm stays a bit of farther south and east of KOTA Territory. This could convey mild accumulations to places south of I-90. State of affairs 2 would convey the storm observe a bit of nearer, leading to accumulations for a lot of western South Dakota and northeast Wyoming.

This storm appears nothing near the earlier two storms we simply went by way of. Snow totals will likely be considerably much less, the wind doesn’t look to be anyplace as sturdy and there won’t be a robust surge of Arctic air that comply with.

Uncertainty with this storm stays excessive in the meanwhile. It’s nonetheless spinning up within the Pacific Ocean, greater than a thousand miles away from us. Friday and Saturday must be the timeframe the place we’ve higher sampling of this storm system because it strikes onto the west coast.

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