Is North Dakota’s First Snowfall Of The Season Coming Soon?

October snow is certainly nothing new in North Dakota.

September snow isn't even out of the question.  Last year we managed to avoid that October snowfall but we paid for it in early November, as it started snowing and didn't stop until April (And over 100 inches later).

I made my fearless prediction for North Dakota's first snowfall of the season back in September.

You can read all about that here.  After looking at all of the long-range weather models and consulting with the National Weather Service in Bismarck, I came up with the date of November 21st.  I know November 21st is extremely late for our first snowfall of the season but after all, we are going into an El Nino.

Let me explain again by saying I'm not a meteorologist.  I just pretend to be one on the radio.  I'm more of a weather nerd, but hey, If meteorologists can be wrong 80% of the time and still get paid, why not me?

My November 21st prediction for the first snowfall of the season could be wayyyyy off (by almost a month)!

According to the National Weather Service and other weather reporting agencies, we have a potential winter system that could impact North Dakota next week.  Still way too far out to know the exact path of this potential storm or if it will fall mostly as rain.

As of right now, it looks like rain will develop across North Dakota late Monday night after a warm weekend.  A cold front will accompany this rain and could have it changing over to snow late Wednesday night into Thursday morning.  At this time it looks like only an inch or two of snow, but that could change either way depending on the temperatures.  Still too far out to know for sure.  It could end up being all rain or perhaps a lot more.

I got my money on mostly rain.