Colder Tuesday with snow on Wednesday - KCCI Des Moines

24 HOURS FROM NOW MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. LET’S LOOK OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW, THOUGH. PRETTY QUIET CURRENTLY HERE ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA YET AGAIN A LOT OF GRAY ON MOST OF OUR SKY CAMS UNLESS YOU HEAD DOWN FURTHER OFF TO THE SOUTH. ALSO, LOOK AT LEMON. I MIGHT BE ABLE TO FAINTLY MAKE OUT. THERE WAS SOME BLUE EARLIER ON. NOW THAT WE DON’T HAVE AS MUCH LIGHT, NOT QUITE AS MUCH OUTGOING. AND YOU STILL GOT SOME OF THAT FRESH SNOW THAT YOU SAW LAST NIGHT LINGERING ON SOME OF THE GROUNDS AS THE SOUTH COUNTY COURTHOUSE HERE JUST OFF FRAME. SOME OF US ARE GOING TO BE SEEING A LOT MORE SNOW THAN THAT HERE BEFORE TOO LONG. TEMPERATURE WISE, PRETTY MUCH WE STAYED STEADY IN THE THIRTIES UNDER THOSE CLOUDS EARLIER TODAY. THAT’S WHERE WE REMAIN AND THAT’S WHERE WE’RE GOING TO BASICALLY BE AT TONIGHT. THIRTIES AND THEN UPPER TWENTIES. SO WE’RE GOING TO JUMP AHEAD TO TOMORROW. THIS IS GOING TO BE 7:00. MOST OF US GET UP AND GET GOING HERE ON WEDNESDAY. JUST SOME CLOUDS TO START OFF TOMORROW. BY THE MID-MORNING INTO ABOUT LUNCHTIME SOUTH AND SOUTHWESTERN IOWA. YOU’RE GOING TO START TO SEE YOUR FIRST MOISTURE IN THE FORM OF PROBABLY SOME FREEZING RAIN. THE AIR ALOFT UP IN THE AIR LEVEL IS GOING TO BE PROBABLY STILL LIQUID OR WARM ENOUGH THAT WE HAVE LIQUID RAIN. BUT THOSE GROUND TEMPERATURES DOWN TOWARDS THE FREEZING MARK OR BELOW. SO THAT’S HOW THIS WHOLE WHOLE THING IS GOING TO START OFF WITH. PROBABLY SOME ICINESS DOWN IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE STATE. AND THEN AS WE HEAD INTO THE AFTERNOON, NOON, PLACES LIKE THE DES MOINES METRO GET ON THE ACTION AS SOON AS ONE OR 2:00 TOMORROW AFTERNOON. LITTLE BIT OF WINTRY MIX AND THEN THE AIR IS GOING BE COOL. SO WE’RE RAPIDLY GOING TO START CHANGING ALL OF THIS OVER TO SOME SNOW UNLESS YOU’RE LET’S SAY, DOWN TOWARDS HIGHWAY 34 AND SOUTHWARD INTO THE AFTERNOON, YOU’RE STILL GETTING A WINTRY MIX AT THE SECOND HALF OF WEDNESDAY. AND FAST FORWARD INTO THE EVENING HOURS. EVERYBODY’S STARTING TO CHANGE OVER TO SOME SNOW. THIS IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE WHEN IT’S THE HEAVIEST MID-AFTERNOON INTO MID EVENING AND THEN A LOT OF US ARE GOING TO SEE OUR ACCUMULATING SNOW, PROBABLY DONE BY THE TIME WE HEAD TOWARDS 11 OR MIDNIGHT TOMORROW NIGHT, ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE FROM THE DES MOINES POINT, SOUTHEAST, NORTH CENTRAL, NORTHWESTERN IOWA, YOU’RE PROBABLY GOING TO STILL HAVE SNOW HAPPENING THROUGH THE NIGHT. AND INTO EARLY ON THURSDAY MORNING. THAT’S KIND OF THE ROUGH TIMING OF THIS THING COMING UP TOMORROW. HERE’S YOUR LOOK AT AMOUNTS DES MOINES METRO AREA. YOU’RE PLANTED RIGHT IN THE 3 TO 6 INCH BAND. IF I HAD TO SAY, I’D PROBABLY LEAN TOWARDS THE LOWER END OF THAT BAND RIGHT AROUND THE DES MOINES AREA AND THEN SOUTHEASTERN IOWA, AS YOU HAD FURTHER THAT DIRECTION IN KNOW DOWN TOWARDS SHERATON EAST, TOWARDS ALBIA TAMBO AND SO ON. 1 TO 3 INCHES OR LESS, YOU HEAD UP TO AMES, FOR EXAMPLE. YOU’RE GOING TO BE PUSHING TOWARDS THE SIX INCH NUMBER NORTH CENTRAL, NORTHWESTERN IOWA, A LOT OF THOSE SIX PLUS INCH AMOUNTS. IF YOU HEAD OUT TOWARDS SIOUX CITY AND OVER THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY, YOU MIGHT BE BORDERING ON SOME DOUBLE DIGIT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS HERE. BY THE TIME WE WRAP THIS THING EARLY ON THURSDAY. WHAT ABOUT WINDS? IT’S GOING TO BE BLIZZARD TYPE CONDITIONS, PROBABLY NOT. MIGHT BE SOME VISIBILITY ISSUES. WINDS WILL OCCASIONALLY BE GUSTING AROUND 20 OR 25 MILES PER HOUR INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT, INTO EARLY ON THURSDAY. THAT’S NOT SUPER, SUPER STRONG, THOUGH. AND THIS SNOW FOR A LOT OF US WILL BE A LITTLE BIT OF A WETTER VARIETY UNLESS YOU’RE UP NORTH, I WOULD SAY NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30 ISH, MAYBE SOME BLOWING SNOW, A COUPLE OF DRIFTING ISSUES AS YOU HEAD INTO EARLY THURSDAY. AND THEN IT’S JUST KIND OF A COLDER GRAY OR BREEZY DAY THE REST OF THURSDAY. SO TOMORROW EVENING, TOMORROW NIGHT. THOSE ARE THE TIMES TO MAYBE NOT BE OUT AND ABOUT TRAVELING IF YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE. REST OF THE WEEKEND OF THE WEEKEND LOOKS FAIRLY DRY. STILL PRETTY STANDARD. JANUARY WEATHER, THOUGH. UPPER TWENTIES, LOWE