Posted on 02/11/2007 5:58:30 AM PST by John W
Today is definitely the calm before the storm as the North Central Regional Radar shows that the Midwest is generally quiet to end the weekend. A cold front, however, will deliver light snow from eastern Nebraska to northern Michigan today. Areas from Iowa to southern Michigan and northern Ohio will receive up to a few inches of powdery snow from the front tonight.
As a storm pushes through the Rockies, a bit of snow will start falling over the central Plains with some rain and wintry weather over Kansas and northern Missouri tonight. The snow will become more widespread from the northern High Plains to the Ohio Valley on Monday as the clash of cold air to the north and warm and moist air to the south allows the storm to strengthen over the southern Plains on Monday.
According to our Winter Weather Center, snow amounts will be significantly higher over areas just south of lakes Michigan and Erie Monday into Tuesday as snow falls along the northern, then western fringe of the storm. Winter Storm Watches are already in place from southeastern Nebraska to southwestern Pennsylvania and the Maryland Panhandle where 6 to 12 inches of snow will come down by the end of Tuesday.
Snowfall totals will significantly lower to the south of the heaviest band of snow due to warmer air causing the snow to either start out as or mix with rain or icy weather.
On Valentine's Day, the storm will be dumping a significant amount of snow across the Northeast. With the storm and its snow to the east, a cold dome of high pressure will calm, but chill the majority of the Midwest. The frigid air blowing over the Great Lakes will send more bands of lake-effect snow downwind of the lakes.
The Civil War was Bush's fault too!!!!
fingers crossed for a plow day! :)
As they fine tune this thing it doesn't look good here in north central Indiana.
Happy Early Birthday wishes!
That's one helluva commute! I'm sure you already know about the speed traps galore on 29. :P
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
342 AM EST TUE FEB 13 2007
..MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL HIT THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT
.A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER ARKANSAS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST TO WEST
VIRGINIA ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS SYSTEM WILL CAUSE HEAVY SNOW
ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS WILL
CAUSE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW RESULTING IN WHITEOUTS AND SOME
ROADS BECOMING IMPASSABLE DUE TO DRIFTING. THE WORST CONDITIONS
ARE EXPECTED SOUTH OF A KNOX INDIANA TO WAUSEON OHIO LINE WHERE
THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL FALL. TRAVEL IS DISCOURAGED. HIGHWAYS THAT
WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE INTERSTATES 69... 65... 75... 80... 90...
AND 94... AND ROUTES 6... 24... 27... 30... 31... 33... AND 127.
INZ008-009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-OHZ001-002-004-005-015-016-
024-025-131645-
/O.CAN.KIWX.WS.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070214T1200Z/
/O.NEW.KIWX.BZ.W.0002.070213T0842Z-070214T1200Z/
NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-
ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-
BLACKFORD-JAY-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-
VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...
GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...
PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...WINONA LAKE...
COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...MONTICELLO...
BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...NORTH MANCHESTER...
HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...BERNE...MARION...
HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
342 AM EST TUE FEB 13 2007 /242 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007/
..WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED
...BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/
WEDNESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A
BLIZZARD WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/
WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A COMBINATION OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS WILL RESULT
IN BLIZZARD CONDITIONS DEVELOPING OVER MUCH OF NORTHERN INDIANA
AND NORTHWEST OHIO TODAY AND TONIGHT. IN ADDITION IT WILL BE VERY
COLD WITH WIND CHILLS FALLING BELOW ZERO BY THIS AFTERNOON AND
CONTINUING TONIGHT. STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED TO RANGE FROM 10 TO 15 INCHES WITH HEAVIEST AMOUNTS OVER
SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA.
A BLIZZARD WARNING MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. FALLING AND BLOWING SNOW WITH STRONG WINDS
AND POOR VISIBILITIES ARE LIKELY. THIS WILL LEAD TO WHITEOUT
CONDITIONS AND SOME ROADS BECOMING IMPASSABLE DUE TO DRIFTING
SNOW...MAKING TRAVEL EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT TRAVEL. IF YOU
MUST...HAVE A WINTER SURVIVAL KIT WITH YOU. IF YOU GET
STRANDED...STAY WITH YOUR VEHICLE.
Lots more anchor babies..... ;^)
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