February 2, 2014: GOOD SUNDAY MORNING! Super Bowl Fans - Snow fans - Groundhog Day Fans - I have been telling you for three days that today might bring you some of the white gold (aka SNOW). And so it shall :) Snow will spread into the area over the coming hours and pick up all afternoon into the evening. I answered a ton of questions last night - my forecast has not changed much. There will always be questions on exact totals. If banding occurs then totals can double in a few spots. Hard to pin-point where a band might set up. Generally 2-4 across much of the area centered from the MO/AR line - Poplar Bluff east/northeast into far southern Illinois and western Kentucky. See last nights/yesterdays threads. At this point there isnt much more you need to know - the snow is moving in. Snow may mix with freezing rain and sleet for portions of the area at the beginning. Roads will be bad later this afternoon and evening - tomorrow into Tuesday morning. Lows tonight will be in the 20s. Monday morning will be a mess in many areas. I still believe there will be a SHARP cut off in snow totals as you move towards the northern part of are area - anywhere north of route 13 up to Mt Vernon will/should see less snow than say near the Ohio River and into western Kentucky. Tuesday - no changes in the forecast. Believe the 32 degree line is most likely to run from near Poplar Bluff, MO to Perryville, IL towards Salem, IL. VERY tough call on this subject. As I have been saying for several days now - prepare for ice and hope for rain in far southern IL and western KY. We planned on 1-3 day power outages as a worse case scenario. I think there is a decent chance temperatures warm above freezing on Tuesday for many of us. Thus, it would just be plain old rain. Plain old rain would be a god-send in this event. We dont want freezing rain. Further west and north you go in the region then the better chance for freezing rain and sleet on Tuesday. Monitor updates as we move forward. If we get a widespread snow pack then that could influence temperatures a little bit on Tuesday, as well. Something we will have to factor in. Pipe busting cold possible once again this week - Thursday and Friday mornings could dip into the single digits. MAYBE another winter storm next week - that is just too far out to go into detail. Thats it - your snowstorm is moving in as I type this. I will check the thread from time to time - but may not answer every question. At this point I have answered a lot of questions over the last 2 days. You should be prepared for what is coming. Here are your tracking tools - radars - if you need to view watches or warnings then check your local NWS page. Radars weatherobservatory/weather-radar.htm
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:24:55 +0000
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