When and where will snow be falling — and possibly accumulating

On Thursday, the National Weather Service said there was one scenario of "particular interest" regarding Saturday's snow chances in Minnesota, and that scenario still exists, but the placement of the interesting potential for measurable snow has changed.

On Thursday, the RFFS models was painting southern Minnesota with a narrow band of 2-4 inches of snow, which would've looked like less in the end due to melting and compacting. Now, that same model, and others, are pushing that narrow band of minor accumulations from eastern South Dakota into southwestern Minnesota and parts of Iowa.

"The track of this system has remained fairly consistent over the past couple of days now and places the axis of heaviest precip across eastern South Dakota into northern Iowa," the National Weather Service