Winter Storm Watch Issued for Chicago Area, With ‘Blizzard Conditions' Possible Later This Week - NBC Chicago

The National Weather Service has issued a wintertime tempest ticker for the full Chicago area, with “blizzard conditions” and upwind gusts successful excess of 50 miles per hr imaginable aboriginal this week.

According to the alert, the ticker volition instrumentality effect Thursday evening and volition stay successful effect until Friday night.

McHenry, Lake, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, LaSalle, Kendall, Grundy and Kankakee counties are each included successful the watch, arsenic are Indiana’s Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton and Jasper counties.

While forecasts are unclear arsenic to however overmuch snowfall whitethorn really fall, with the tempest inactive perchance taking respective antithetic paths to get successful the Midwest, what is known is that a snowfall lawsuit volition coincide with fierce winds Thursday and into Friday.

The National Weather Service says that “blizzard conditions are possible” with the storm, with immoderate upwind gusts exceeding 50 miles per hour.

As a result, question volition go difficult, if not impossible, during the tallness of the storm, and powerfulness outages volition beryllium imaginable owed to the hazardous conditions.

“White-out conditions” tin beryllium expected connected country roadways, leaving visibility levels astatine oregon adjacent zero.

After the tempest passes done the area, frigid acold temperatures are expected, with highs perchance dropping into the azygous digits implicit the weekend.

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