Warm Week, Followed Cold and Snow

Happy Friday, everyone!! A grab bag of winter's wrath will make an appearance on Spring's grand opening. Yes, spring officially begins tomorrow and likely for many of us snowflakes will be flyin' around. Clouds increasing throughout the day is in association with the main storm system located in the Plains. As these clouds thicken and lower precipitation will begin to break out starting in the form of rain. As colder air gets pulled down behind the system our rain will quickly change over to snow likely by the predawn hours. Depending on the change over will determine the amount of snowfall across our hometowns. On last night's newscast I was talking around a solid 1 to 2 inches of wet slushy snow with a localized 3 inch amounts especially in areas around SE Iowa and NW Missouri possibly west central Illinois later Saturday morning. I still like those numbers so we'll go ahead an keep in. We'll also keep most of the snowfall on grassy areas instead of the main highways. Combined this mess with a brisk North wind and you have temperatures in the 30s all day with wind chills making it feel in the 20s. What a way to start Spring. Yuck!!! Fortunately, this snow will be gone before the new week begins as afternoon highs will show signs of warming with lower 40s on Sunday giving way to 50s early next week! Hopefully this end of winter's wrath. Have a great weekend!! Chief meteorologist James Zahara.