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Wild weather ahead

A low-pressure system is bringing a late winter storm to the Northern Plains and severe weather to the Midwest.

Ag meteorologist Drew Lerner with World Weather Incorporated tells Brownfield that will delay some fieldwork. He says the stage is set for the wild, stormy weather to begin Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.

“It will be very cold across Nebraska and parts of Kansas. To the east, it will be very warm and humid. That sets the stage for a contrast in air mass that will set off the severe weather outbreak.”

Lerner says tornadoes, hail and high winds are expected from Iowa to southern Wisconsin and down to the lower Mississippi River Basin. In the Northern Plains, he says a late season snowstorm will start early Tuesday morning in South Dakota and move east.

“It will create a blizzard for several hours. Snow accumulations will run from six to 14 inches, in general, and there will be local accumulations that will get up around or slightly over 20 inches.”

Lerner says the moisture content in the snow is likely to be half an inch to shy of two inches, adding to the existing snowpack in the north.