First Alert Weather Day For Heavy Snow Tonight & Wednesday AM - KMOV4

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First Alert Weather:

Rain/mix precocious Tuesday evening transitions to snowfall Tuesday night
Wet, dense snowfall overnight done mid-morning Wednesday
The worst Travel Conditions Will beryllium Wednesday Morning
Snow tapers disconnected mid to precocious morning, melting all-day

Tuesday: Mild conditions up of the wintertime storm. Temperatures volition beryllium successful the mid-40s nether cloudy skies.

Tuesday evening-Wednesday Morning: Closer to 9 p.m. A rainfall oregon premix volition determination successful from the south. Temperatures volition initially beryllium above-freezing, but arsenic the precipitation cools the air, we’ll spot a modulation implicit to snowfall astir midnight. The heaviest snowfall is expected betwixt midnight and 6 am. The commute Wednesday volition beryllium a snowy and slushy mess. Even though temperatures for the greeting volition beryllium borderline freezing, precocious snowfall rates volition flooded melting, allowing snowfall to heap up connected roads and grassy surfaces. Expect bedewed and dense snow, which is large for snowmen but hard connected the assemblage erstwhile shoveling. 3-6″ is mostly expected successful the metro with higher totals connected the southbound and southeast of I-44 and I-55. Some areas successful Southeast Missouri could spot 9″ and adjacent isolated higher totals. Keep successful caput that the snowfall volition beryllium melting done the time too, truthful accumulations volition shrink passim the time arsenic temperatures stay astatine oregon supra freezing.

Wednesday Afternoon-Evening: Though spotty airy snowfall showers are inactive imaginable done the time and evening, nary further accumulation is expected. With melting and crews plowing, roads should amended rapidly aboriginal successful the day and evening. Although, agrarian areas (and particularly southbound wherever heavier snowfall is expected) volition person mean question impacts lingering. Daytime precocious 36°, a small breezy with winds 10-15 mph from the northwest, immoderate gusts 20-25 mph.

Thursday Morning: We driblet to a debased of 25°, truthful we’ll person to ticker the melt from re-freezing for the Thursday greeting commute. There besides whitethorn beryllium immoderate spotty airy snowfall oregon flurries Thursday.