#tristatewx February 4, 2014: UPDATED Morning thread number II: WINTER STORM MOVING INTO THE REGION... Dont forget your friends to the page and SHARE the information Roads could get bad FAST today in some counties. I would say err on the side of caution. Get home and stay home. Precipitation will move in rapidly and out rapidly. This is a quick hitting storm - most of the precipitation will fall this afternoon. Precipitation will move in as soon as this morning for southwest counties - that includes areas like Sikeston, Cario, Wickliffie, southwest Kentucky counties near the river. Then it will RAPIDLY spread north and east. Dont be caught off-guard in this one. Ice is no fun to drive in. A significant snow, sleet, and freezing rain event is about to get underway in the area. There will still be some wavering of the 32 degree line. The consensus among most forecasters is that much of the region will experience wintry weather today. The question will be where the 32 line ends up later this afternoon. It is literally a nail biter for far southern IL and western KY. NEW morning data takes the 32 line to the Ohio River and some data takes it to Vienna. This would change your ice to rain. Plain old rain - that would save you from damage. BUT, this is just too close to call. Short term power outages are likely in areas with the heaviest ice. I will post information in this thread. I will post you some tracking tools - my winter weather radar tools. Dont forget the interactive radars have a WINTERIZE button feature. You can turn on the type of precipitation falling button. That tells you what SHOULD be falling from the sky. In a messy winter storm it inst perfect, but close. Please report your precipitation type. Dont tell me it is sleeting here! Tell me its 1 pm and it is sleeting in Wickliffe, KY - Ballard County. That way I quickly can remember where you are at without looking it up. Let me know when roads get bad. Very cold air arrives for Thursday night and Friday night - single digit air possible for some of us. Esp areas with a lot of snow. Good luck everyone - some of you will lose power today. Winter Radars weatherobservatory/weather-radar.htm
Posted on: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:09:14 +0000
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