Winter storm forecast to bring impactful snow in Omaha area Wednesday into Thursday - KETV Omaha

OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS HERE. SO WE WANT FOLKS TO AHEAD AND PREPARE. TOMORROW LOOKS LIKE A TOUGH DAY TOMORROW EVENING FOR GETTING AROUND. AND ALSO FOR TOMORROW NIGHT. THIS EVENING, THOUGH. IT’S NOT BAD. IT’S A LITTLE CHILLY. IT’S A RAIN FACTOR FIVE TOLERABLE FOR BEING AND WORKING OUTSIDE. WINTER STORM WARNING GENERALLY THAT’S RESERVED FOR, WE THINK THERE’LL BE AT LEAST FOUR OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW AND TOUGH TRAVEL CONDITIONS. THAT’S WEDNESDAY IN OUR AREA. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY SOUTH. LET’S GO RUN THROUGH THE COMPUTER MODEL HERE. CLOUDS ON THE INCREASE THIS EVENING. LATER ON TONIGHT, CLOUDY. TOMORROW MORNING, WE COULD SEE SOME LIGHT PRECIPITATE ACTION GETTING CLOSE TO THE METRO, BUT ALSO SOME DRY AIR. SO AS THAT COMES NORTH TAKES A LITTLE WHILE TO FILL IN THIS AREA OF PINK IS WHERE THERE COULD BE A BLEND OF RAIN, FREEZING RAIN, SLEET AND SNOW. COMPUTER MODELS ARE HINTING THAT MAYBE THAT MAKES IT BRIEFLY UP TO THE OMAHA METRO. BUT MORE SNOW IN OMAHA AND ALSO IN LINCOLN, ALTHOUGH THEY DO GET THE MIX FOR A LITTLE WHILE. ALL RIGHT. SO AS WE GO INTO LATE DAY TOMORROW, BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW TOMORROW EVENING, BANDS OF HEAVY SNOW AND THE WRAP AROUND USUALLY IS STILL PRETTY HEAVY AND NOT UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT DOES IT START TO CLEAR ON OUT OF HERE. THAT PARTICULAR COMPUTER MODEL PRODUCES THESE SNOW TOTALS, PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT OVERDONE, BUT ALMOST NOTHING IN FALLS CITY MORE THAN A FOOT IN, NOR FOR THIS IS THE NORTH AMERICAN MESOSCALE MODEL. AGAIN, A HUGE GRADIENT. AND KIND OF RIGHT ALONG THE I-80 CORRIDOR AND THE THE GFS COMPUTER MODEL ALSO SHOWING THE SAME THING. NOTHING IN FALLS CITY NEARLY A FOOT IN NORFOLK. SO WE LOOK AT ALL THOSE COMPUTER MODELS. AND THIS IS WHAT I COME UP WITH. I THINK PROBABLY SIX OR SEVEN IN OMAHA. YOU GET TO THE SOUTH A BIG DROP OFF. YOU GET DOWN TO BELLEVUE AND PLATTSMOUTH SUBSTANTIALLY LESS. YOU GET DOWN TO NEBRASKA CITY, MAYBE ONLY RAIN MIXED IN THERE OR JUST PLAIN RAIN. 3928 TODAY, NO PRECIPITATE ZATION. THAT WILL CHANGE TOMORROW AS WE GET AGAIN A QUITE A BIT OF MOISTURE IN THE AREA. WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THIS BEING KIND OF A HEAVY TO LIFT SNOW DOWNTOWN HERE, PARTLY SUNNY, 38 DEGREES, LIGHT WINDS. NOT BAD HERE THIS EVENING WITH THE TEMPERATURES WELL ABOVE FREEZING. IT’S DOWN TO 32 NOW AND HARLAN AND CAROL, BUT STILL ABOVE 40 IN FAR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA, THE LIGHT WINDS, NO PRECIPITATION RIGHT NOW. CLOUDS INCREASING A BIT. AND HERE’S OUR STORM SYSTEM. THIS THING CLOBBERED CALIFORNIA YESTERDAY. LOOKS LIKE THERE’S A LOT OF MOISTURE HEADED OUR WAY WITH THIS STORM. AND AGAIN, THE TIMES THING GETS GOING DURING THE MORNING TOMORROW, PROBABLY BE OKAY FOR THE MORNING DRIVE, BUT MAYBE PRETTY QUICKLY THEREAFTER, SNOW REALLY PILES UP INTO THE AFTERNOON, THE EVENING AS WELL AS TOMORROW NIGHT. NOT SUPER KIND OF A WET SNOW, NOT A TON OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING. MAYBE A LOT TO CLEAN UP, THOUGH. 28. TONIGHT’S LOW TEMPERATURE WEDNESDAY, LIGHT SNOW WEST, BUT PERHAPS SOME VERY LIGHT FLURRIES ARE OMAHA METRO YOU’RE GETTING A LITTLE LIGHT SNOW. MORE OF THAT SNOW AND MIX IN THE AREA AT NOON TIME AND THEN HEAVIER SNOW AT 4:00 AND INTO THE EVENING. IT’LL ALL BE DONE BEFORE THURSDAY MORNING. BE OUT CLEANING UP, BUT THAT COULD STILL CAUSE SOME IMPACTS AND GETTING AROUND JUST THE CLEANUP THAT FOLKS HAVE TO DO A LITTLE COLD ON FRIDAY AND IF WE HAVE THIS SNOW ON THE GROUND, IT’S GOING TO MAKE TEMPERATURES STAY A BIT COLDER END OF THE WEEKEND AND AS WELL AS NEXT WEEK. ALL RIGHT. WE’RE