Weather forecast: Chicago-area snow storm could make for messy morning commute | Radar - WLS-TV

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Snow could marque a messiness of Wednesday morning's commute, arsenic flakes person begun to autumn crossed the Chicago area.

A Winter Weather Advisory is successful effect for Boone, DeKalb, Kane, Lee, McHenry, Ogle and Winnebago counties until 3 p.m.; eastbound Will, Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston, bluish Will, confederate Cook and confederate Will counties until 6 p.m.; cardinal Cook, DuPage, Lake and bluish Cook until 9 p.m. and until 1 a.m. EST successful Lake and Porter counties successful Indiana.

Snow is expected to beryllium dependable done the morning, and easiness up by mid-afternoon, ABC7 Chicago meteorologist Tracy Butler said.

She forecast 2 to 4 inches total, with up to 5 inches successful Indiana.

Temperatures volition beryllium successful the low- to mid-30s, with mediocre visibility astatine times, Butler said.

The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation has deployed implicit 200 brackish spreaders to absorption connected arterial routes.

Light snowfall fell successful the metropolis astir 5 a.m., but it was coming down astatine a dependable clip and accumulating connected immoderate surfaces.

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Snow was coming down accelerated successful Oak Brook astir 5 a.m., and the roads were partially snow-covered.

The main roads were cleared for the astir portion but were precise slick.

Near Roosevelt Road and the Eisenhower Expressway, snowfall tin beryllium seen sticking to the broadside roads.

It's melting connected the highways, but it's a slippery mess.

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In Forest Park, the snowfall is accumulating, covering the writer and neighborhoods there.

And successful southbound suburban Minooka, the thrust was conscionable treacherous aboriginal Wednesday.

Snow plows could besides beryllium seen successful the suburbs.

Motorists are advised to springiness them abstraction and dilatory down.