NWS says heavier snow in evening hours, 10 inches still possible

Snowfall started off light Tuesday morning as heavier winter conditions are expected to increase in the evening into the later hours tonight.KTLO, Classic Hits and the Boot News spoke with National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Colby Pope Tuesday evening and he says even though things started off slow, he expects much heavier snowfall starting in the evening leading up to about 5 A.M. Wednesday, with accumulations still having the possibility of reaching up to 10 inches.

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Colby Pope:
Well, we can expect continuation of that snow, and even certainly we’ll probably see even some heavier snow as we get into the evening time frame, and then especially as we go into later this evening, then things start to taper off after midnight, but it’s not really until about 3 to 5 a.m. where things really end as far as any winter precipitation.

Now, luckily for the listening area, it’s all going to be snow. But again, you’re going to start to see those snow totals really pile up. And definitely we’re going to be in that 8 to 10 inch possibility that’s definitely going to be met.

You know, things are starting off slow here at the beginning, but we’re really going to see things ramp up as we go into the evening time frame. And then we’ll continue to see those road conditions really start to degradate as we go into the evening, especially as temperatures will really dive down, temperatures will be in the teens for the evening, and then even dropping down into the lower single digits for tomorrow morning. I mean, and then the high for your Wednesday is only going to get up to not even 20 degrees, about around the upper teens, so this isn’t going anywhere anytime fast, unfortunately.

I mean, I think we’ll start to see some melting, even being in below freezing. You’ll still have a little bit of melting, but not much. But I think the best day when we’ll start to really start to notice, okay, we’re starting to notice that this is starting to go away is going to be Friday. Because Friday you’ll be in the upper 20’s, the low 30’s across the area. And then as we get into Saturday, looking like we’re going to be around near 40 degrees. So then we’ll definitely start to being above freezing. We’ll really, with that sun and getting, you know, right well above freezing, we’ll start really chipping away at it.

And then that too, we’ll be back in the 60’s. It’s almost unbelievable to believe, really, like in the low 60’s as we get into the next week. So that’ll really help get rid of this snow that we do have.

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