EXTREME WEATHER: Winter Arrives Early In The Upper U.S. Midwest - Winter Storm Dumps Over A Half Foot Of Snow In South Dakota, Minnesota, And Nebraska!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 07, 2013 - UNITED STATES </span></b>- A storm that trekked from southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska to northwest Iowa and central Minnesota Tuesday dropped up to 10 inches of snow with rates of one inch per hour in some locations.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vAIuPxSPsxQ/UnuSBK3qsTI/AAAAAAABNVs/BQkudgXzp-I/s1600/usawinterstorm01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vAIuPxSPsxQ/UnuSBK3qsTI/AAAAAAABNVs/BQkudgXzp-I/s1600/usawinterstorm01.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />In South Dakota, as much as 9.5 inches of snow fell 5 miles east of the town of Porcupine. Sioux Falls, located in the extreme <a href="http://www.weather.com/video/southeast-regional-forecast-362?lc=int_mb_1001">southeast</a> part of the state, saw just over a half foot of snow. <br /><br />The top snow total in Nebraska was 10 inches in Gordon. <a href="http://www.weather.com/weather/today/North+Platte+NE+USNE0353?lc=int_mb_1001">North Platte</a> saw its first measurable snow of the season with a total of 2.2 inches<br /><br />Up to 10.5 inches covered the ground in Minnesota near Milroy. Minneapolis/St. Paul saw its first measurable snow of the season with 1.8 inches.<br /><br />Weather.com meteorologist Chris Dolce says, "The snow will linger in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan early on Wednesday before finally tapering off as low pressure heads into eastern Canada."<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7xKg7cpXxh0/UnuSMXxNnKI/AAAAAAABNV0/bCQwmhYxF9I/s1600/usawinterstorm02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7xKg7cpXxh0/UnuSMXxNnKI/AAAAAAABNV0/bCQwmhYxF9I/s1600/usawinterstorm02.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rod Evans shovels the season's first blanket of snow Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, outside his photo studio in <br />Sioux Falls, S.D. He just signed his snow removal contract but it doesn't start until Nov. 15 so<br /> he had to do it himself. (AP Photo/Carson Walker)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8b0c_C246r8/UnuSMzqJ5BI/AAAAAAABNWA/XX4pBq4qFA0/s1600/usawinterstorm03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8b0c_C246r8/UnuSMzqJ5BI/AAAAAAABNWA/XX4pBq4qFA0/s1600/usawinterstorm03.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This iWitness photo was taken by Joe Reklaitis 5in Concord NE.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9QnwqGZxWWg/UnuSMo3l84I/AAAAAAABNV4/nwpGtro3zcU/s1600/usawinterstorm04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9QnwqGZxWWg/UnuSMo3l84I/AAAAAAABNV4/nwpGtro3zcU/s1600/usawinterstorm04.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This iWitness photo was taken by Britt Griffith in Elgin, Neb.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />South Dakota farmers could use that break. The sunflower harvest is 31 percent done; the corn harvest is 63 percent complete; and the soybean harvest is at 92 percent, according to the latest U.S. Agriculture Department crop progress report.<br /><br />"Obviously, the snow will bring them to a standstill for a few days," said Keith Alverson, who farms near Chester, in the eastern part of the state. "But it looks like it's going to warm up and stay pretty dry, so hopefully it's a temporary shutdown."<br /><br />Alverson got all of his corn out Monday, though he still has field work to do.<br /><br />It's been an on-again, off-again harvest, he said.<br /><br />"We've had these small windows the month of October. It seems about once a week we'd get some rain or snow or something. We'd have two to three days off and go hard for a few days and then have a break, so we certainly made an intense push there," Alverson said.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8TUD4jC_8PE/UnuSVdzheSI/AAAAAAABNWM/LoD7T2PpjhY/s1600/usawinterstorm05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8TUD4jC_8PE/UnuSVdzheSI/AAAAAAABNWM/LoD7T2PpjhY/s1600/usawinterstorm05.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This iWitness photo was taken by Penny Wal 5 miles NE of Avon, SD.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vkN_E8cIA-c/UnuSVZHWEKI/AAAAAAABNWQ/-7No5UZvbgg/s1600/usawinterstorm06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vkN_E8cIA-c/UnuSVZHWEKI/AAAAAAABNWQ/-7No5UZvbgg/s1600/usawinterstorm06.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This iWitness photo was taken by Penny Wal 5 miles NE of Avon, S.D.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbgoy0wjET4/UnuSVvK8BOI/AAAAAAABNWU/t6eEddrekHw/s1600/usawinterstorm07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zbgoy0wjET4/UnuSVvK8BOI/AAAAAAABNWU/t6eEddrekHw/s1600/usawinterstorm07.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Southeastern Minnesota. (Mark Tarello)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Kurt Stiefvater said the corn on his farm in Salem, about 45 miles east of Sioux Falls, will need a few days to dry. Otherwise silk on the ears of corn can clog the combine and the ground will be too sticky from the cold and snow.<br /><br />"It makes the ground conditions on top a little greasy," he said.<br /><br />The snow prompted the postponement of some events but otherwise had a minimal impact.<br /><br />"It's gotta happen sometime," said Rod Evans as he shoveled the heavy snow off the sidewalk outside his photography studio in Sioux Falls.<br /><br />He mailed his snow removal contract for the year on Tuesday morning, just before the snow started to fall. It goes into effect Nov. 15. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH: </b></span>Winter Arrives Early in South Dakota.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" class="b-hbp-video b-uploaded" frameborder="0" height="333" id="BLOGGER-video-bfdebe016826d45d-7646" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyYUaPrCL5qVR_P516lrtg8hRIMspKYkkSUFzLUR1Bkn-0uwjcLad69OfsfVBgWllcn1Sm0ykMfih1bWshAEEGyi98UfydvRb1gIIwSAFsozygQ3UkU680digLJmmlUnte2H4Y" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br />In southwestern Minnesota, a trained spotter measured 8.5 inches of snow about 6 miles to the east-southeast of Marshall.<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.weather.com/video/a-national-look-at-the-next-3-days-364?lc=int_mb_1001">National</a> Weather Service says a spotter estimated 8 inches of snow 5 miles north-northwest of Holland.<br /><br />Other <a href="http://www.weather.com/maps/maptype/forecastsusnational/ussnowfallforecast_large.html?lc=int_mb_1001">snowfall</a> reports include 3.5 inches near Kingston and in Granite Falls and 3 inches in Sacred Heart. - <a href="http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/snow-south-dakota-minnesota-nebraska-20131106"><span style="color: orange;"><b>TWC</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 07, 2013 - UNITED STATES - A storm that trekked from southern South Dakota and northern Nebraska to northwest Iowa and central Min...

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Tropical Influence On Plains Midwest Winter Storm

Tropical Storm Sonia made landfall last night in Mexico, providing soaking rains to the Mexican Pacific coastline and the Baja as it churned northeast for a final landfall.  Its moisture will be one part of the ingredients in a developing storm system that will organize in the Rockies later today.<br /><br />The other piece of energy for the storm moved onshore yesterday to California and is now working through Nevada. Between it and Sonia's remnants, the two pieces will come together in Colorado to fuse an early season winter storm for the Plains and Upper Midwest.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzz8mNECWPw7IMp_BkAaWHkAXBbaV9FbV2t_04eCdgDBMcPj2Scl-cNgy5XyHBIk4AZ8Pzyb41sATQjou7uAJPlT4gDhee5ER_uGO-eLZPq6aWpYNCiCi3tlxOCl5g9iSA3iMpLn4LXGp/s1600/110413-SONIA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijzz8mNECWPw7IMp_BkAaWHkAXBbaV9FbV2t_04eCdgDBMcPj2Scl-cNgy5XyHBIk4AZ8Pzyb41sATQjou7uAJPlT4gDhee5ER_uGO-eLZPq6aWpYNCiCi3tlxOCl5g9iSA3iMpLn4LXGp/s400/110413-SONIA.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tropical Storm Sonia (bottom, left) will provide a moisture source on a developing winter storm in the Plains and Upper Midwest. The other source of energy is a disturbance in Nevada (far left, above).</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Watches are out in Nebraska and Minnesota for this storm system. While an early season winter storm is not unusual, the direct connection from a decaying tropical system isn't something you usually get with winter storms <a href="http://www.livescience.com/24396-superstorm-sandy-snow.html" target="_blank">but it does happen</a> on occasion.  Unlike Sandy's deposit of snow in the Appalachians last year, Sonia will be little more than a moisture source for this Plains storm by the time the moisture gets pulled north into the US thanks to the amount of real estate the tropical system will traverse and weaken across and not the primary "cog" in the snow making engine. A few hurricanes on the Atlantic side have produced snow in New England and Upstate New York after transitioning to nontropical after landfalls, including storms in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_New_England_hurricane" target="_blank">1804</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ginny" target="_blank">1963</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDsqKwgP0DiEMdFQannnVocvAzmzajGHUm6Tgt48KCSLqj19MZM5X-0Wt-FrjGDRVjIy3QbiUzjKTbMbtpsOqdZwY-FmfcBghquKERVhAavftmRPzt-X-LoPAJ1HJWUkaoUJKMncFrtKD/s1600/110413-SONIA2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDsqKwgP0DiEMdFQannnVocvAzmzajGHUm6Tgt48KCSLqj19MZM5X-0Wt-FrjGDRVjIy3QbiUzjKTbMbtpsOqdZwY-FmfcBghquKERVhAavftmRPzt-X-LoPAJ1HJWUkaoUJKMncFrtKD/s400/110413-SONIA2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By Tuesday night, snow will spread across Minnesota and Wisconsin from a developing storm system that will have some tropical moisture ingested into it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />All that said, the developing storm system will gradually work its way east. We will not see snow from it as the low pressure center tracks through Southeast Canada, but it will provide the next shot of rain on Thursday in the region.

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Tropical Storm Sonia made landfall last night in Mexico, providing soaking rains to the Mexican Pacific coastline and the Baja as it churned...

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