A band of heavy snow will move across the Northern Plains Thursday into Thursday night, impacting areas from the Dakota’s to northern Wisconsin. The models have change slightly, taking the swath of heavier south so that Minneapolis now gets into the heavier band. Fargo will still get about a foot of snow on top of the 5 inches they had yesterday. Minneapolis had about 8 inches yesterday and looks like they will have another 8-10 inches of snow, especially north of the city. The city will be right on the line of rain and snow so it can go either way. Thunder can also be mixed in with the snow. That’s pretty amazing for so early in the season.

While Epsilon will stay in the Atlantic and may impact Europe sometime down the road next week, the storm looks amazing on the satellite images this morning. This is a big storm which fact is playing a role in the weather across the Eastern U.S. by building the ridge and allowing warmth and higher humidity to come in.

Two storms will move through the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest this week. The first storm which will have snow on the front end will come tonight into Wednesday. That storm will produce a swath of 1-4 inches of snow with locally 6 inches across parts of southern Minnesota. Northern Wisconsin will have 1-4 inches of snow with local amounts of 6 inches near La Crosse. Minneapolis will have a few inches of snow with the most snow south of the city.

The second swath of snow comes through Thursday into Friday, The heaviest snows will be across north Dakota into northern Minnesota. Fargo could see up to a 8-10 inches of snow. Minneapolis will probably get 4 inches of snow with higher amounts to the north.

Below of the model maps for the snowfall which shown at 10:1 ratio. Most likely, ratios will be 8:1 given the early season.

The upgraded the invest to a depression then quickly went to a tropical storm this morning. As you can see, the movement will be east of Bermuda with no impact on the U.S. coast. If we are to be impacted, our storm would come out of the Caribbean which I am monitoring for development. This makes this year a record number of storms with Epsilon. The last begin year was 2005. That winter the great 2006 blizzard hit the East Coast!