215 FXUS63 KABR 090930 AFDABRArea Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Aberdeen SD 430 AM CDT Tue Sep 9 2025
.KEY MESSAGES...
- Mainly elevated smoke will remain across the area today. Some of this smoke will near the surface with visibility reductions possible mainly west of the Missouri River in the morning.
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.SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON/... Issued at 430 AM CDT Tue Sep 9 2025
A broad area of low pressure coupled with some weak shortwave activity moving through the upper flow is producing showers and thunderstorms across the region this morning. This system is expected to exit by afternoon, though precipitation is likely to taper off sooner than that. Generally dry conditions are then expected through Wednesday afternoon as upper ridging builds in to the Plains.
Elevated wildfire smoke remains over the region today, but near surface smoke in parts of central SD should sink south. Temperatures are expected to be near to slightly above normal both today and Wednesday with warmest highs from Pierre south. Winds increase out of the southeast on Wednesday with gusts to 30 to 35 mph west river as lee side troughing sets up along the Rockies. Before winds increase, though, can`t rule out some morning fog in the east with the latent llm hanging around.
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.LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY/... Issued at 430 AM CDT Tue Sep 9 2025
Wednesday evening the axis of the upper level ridge is over our area and the ridge continues to move east. Models are still showing an upper level low moving in from the west, although now it is more late Saturday afternoon into Saturday evening which is a little later than previous model runs. The EC and Canadian still have similar outcomes up until early Sunday morning, and the GFS is still holding onto the idea of the low staying off to our west over MT. Sunday afternoon, the Canadian starts to agree more with the GFS and moves the low northwest and into MT whereas the EC keeps the low moving east to southeast. Following this, the EC moves into an omega block pattern and the Canadian and GFS have us in southwesterly flow aloft with a low off to our southwest.
The main precipitation event looks to start Friday evening ahead of the low, mainly west river. 40-60% PoPs start to spread east during the day Saturday and then decrease to around 20-30% Sunday before dying off overnight Sunday and into Monday morning. NBM 24 hour QPF ending Sunday morning has chances of more than a quarter of an inch at 30-60% mainly west of the James River, less east of the James. Elevated smoke looks to continue at least over northeastern SD at leave overnight Wednesday. Highs through the period are expected to remain 5-15 degrees above average with Friday as the warmest day.
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.AVIATION /06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY/... Issued at 1132 PM CDT Mon Sep 8 2025
Terminals KABR,KATY,KPIR,KMBG
Primarily VFR conditions, though smoke and possibly fog may reduce visibility at KPIR/KMBG, with lower confidence for the other terminals. There are some very light showers and weak storms this evening/early morning as well, with bases up around 10kft. The last note with regard to aviation is that smoke will be thickest aloft for KMBG/KPIR, up around 6-10kft.
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.ABR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SD...None. MN...None. &&
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SHORT TERM...20 LONG TERM...13 AVIATION...07
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