***1PM MONDAY JAN.20th: NWS has upgraded the watch into a WARNING in the last few minutes(12:57PM to be exact), so what this means is that they are saying it WILL OCCUR, not just might occur anymore. While this could start this afternoon, the main or heaviest snow will fall after 9PM Today(Monday) until Tuesday morning for southern Cook Illinois and until late afternoon tomorrow(Tuesday) for Lake, Porter and LaPorte Indiana. The numbers and places: Crook County(not a typo that time lol) could see 7-14 inches over SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST COOK(this would be for areas such as South Shore, Burnham, Evergreen Park, Dolton, Oak Lawn, Chicago Heights, Flossmor, The south, southeast and southwest side of Chicago, Hyde park, Gage Park, Alsip etc., when you get out towards western Cook close to DuPage, for instance, Oak Brook, Elmhurst, Westchester, Maywood etc: will probably see less than an inch or so as it looks now. So if you are south of downtown, east of about LaGrange road down into far south/very far northeast Will on east thru NW Indiana, this is were the models show the heavy snow. (This is a guideine based on what is showing in the 1PM hour, not set in stone and could change by 5PM, I am just trying to give the best breakdown I can based on what is showing up on time enhanced models). Dont forget it is about 35 degrees now, by tonight the wind will be like roaring at 25-30 MPH from the north/northeast and will drop the temps to about TWO degrees by Midnight(Monday/Tuesday), with wind chills of 10-20 BELOW ZERO. Road salt/chemicals dont work well at those temps so you have to assume the road is slick, especially on bridges and overpasses. Even if your area sees LITTLE TO NO SNOW, BLACK ICE IS A BIG THREAT with this. Most times black ice occurs on roads that look dry or only slighty wet, that is how it catches so many people. To be honest, I never truly understood that until I was in a car with a very good driver and we took a left turn at normal speed and almost ended up as part of lampost ;-). What Im trying to say is I didnt get that a blacktop major street that looked completely dry could cause a car to end up facing the wrong way on the street in about the blink of an eye. So watch this and be carefull driving an be ready for and be ready for a long period of very cold temps and below zero wind chills. If you have no way of getting out of driving in this(which if you can avoid Indiana expressways, please try) have a blanket, window washing fluid, at least a half or 3/4 filled gas tank, someting to drink like bottled water or even pop if you have it and some candy bars or somehing like that eat in case you get stuck for a couple of hours. A couple of extras here, check your tire pressure! When temps change so quick, summer or winter it effects the air in your tires. To little air pressure in your tires and it gives you less control on slides. One more thing(I know I never shutup lol) for warmth you a blanket or coat/clothes made from wool, fleece or polyester. Avoid cotton and nylon/rayon. Cotton collects moisture which doesnt dry, it actually can freeze and make you colder. If poly and cotten are all you have try and blend them and do layers so you can take the wet later off and keep the dry layers underneath. Sorry about Tommys little fashion expo(lol), but I just learned this last week, I had no clue what fabric I was even wearing and the big difference it can make. Here are some links to check on if Im not here(or you want to know whats going on in less than an hourlong lecture lol) goto: chicagoweathercenter weatherbug weather nbcchicago/weather/
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:11:48 +0000
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