Possibility of snow for Bemidji area should build by end of week

I first started at the Bemidji (Minn.) Pioneer as an intern in the summer of 1996. That would begin six years as a news reporter, sports reporter and copy editor for a small, six-day-per-week daily newspaper in northern Minnesota. I wrote a large range of stories from multiple beats, to features to sports, my favorite being the coverage of the Red Lake Reservation High School basketball team named the Warriors. Here is a collection of my stories from my time at the Pioneer.

Nov. 24, 1999

By Devlyn Brooks

The area's ground should remain free of snow on Thanksgiving Day, but the possibility of light precipitation should build near the end of the week, according to weather officials.

Most of Minnesota was covered with its first blanket of snow Tuesday, but the entire National Weather Service region served by the Grand Forks, N.D., office was spared, senior forecaster Lynn Kennedy said Tuesday.

"There's not much going on," he said.

Snow fell from Minnesota's Iron Range through the Twin Cities and southwest Minnesota Tuesday, produced by moist air circulating around the colder north and west sides of the cold front, pushing through the Midwest.

Another front will pass through the Bemidji region on Thanksgiving Day, producing a possibility of some light snow Tuesday night and Friday, Kennedy said. Temperatures, however, will remain "well above seasonal normals" with highs reaching 30-plus degrees on Thanksgiving Day and Friday.

Temperatures will dip Saturday and Sunday with highs expected in the 20s and lows in the teens.

Kennedy said there is no snow in the region's immediate future, which is unlike recent years. He added, however, that it is not abnormal to have bare grounds this time of year.

Monday and Tuesday should produce little precipitation and highs in the 20s. Lows will dip into the teens and possibly lower.