My specialty is "boundary layer micro-meteorology".
Might find this place interesting. To the west is prairie and hills left by glacier. Elevation drops quickly a couple thousand feet from 6 miles west of town to the SD/MN border 10 miles east. So the prairie weather gets moderated at the hills, and we're on the edge of systems moving up through Minnesota. We're typically warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer and miss most blizzards. Always fascinating to watch thunderstorms approach from the west, hit the hills and then slide around us, either to the north or south.
Then there was the winter we had snow with a strong wind riding down the hills to the west. Warmed the air enough to form freezing rain over about 20 miles of Interstate.Not forecast, the rest of the Interstate was good driving, but lots of cars in the ditch here.
NWS products have improved for here over the last decade. But a Fargo TV station has a degreed meteorologist who has been watching this area long enough to accurately forecast this area for all its quirkiness.
