OKAY. THAT SNOWFALL IS SET TO START TOMORROW. I KNOW TODAY YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT IT BEING JUST A DAY OF PREPAREDNESS. YEAH. YOU KNOW, YOU’RE SO BUSY OVER THE WEATHER CENTER. LIKE PLUGGING IN THE NUMBERS OVER AT THE DESK. I WAS TRYING TO ANSWER A QUESTION FROM JOHNNY. JOHNNY, IF YOU’RE LISTENING, HERE’S THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. AFTER MIDNIGHT, AND IT’S GOING TO BE SPREADING IN FROM EASTERN KANSAS AND THEN CROSSING OVER TO WESTERN NORTHWESTERN MISSOURI BY SUNRISE ON WEDNESDAY. SO THE WORST OF IT IS GOING TO BE FROM ABOUT 6:00 IN THE MORNING TO NOON ON WEDNESDAY, AND THEN IT WILL STILL KEEP SNOWING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE ENDING AT ABOUT 6:00 IN THE EVENING HERE IN KANSAS CITY. SO YOU ADD UP ALL THAT SNOW 3 TO 8IN. SO YOUR COMMUNITY IS GOING TO FALL SOMEWHERE WITHIN THAT RANGE. IT MIGHT BE 3 TO 5. IT MIGHT BE 4 TO 6. IT MIGHT BE 5 TO 8. SO ALWAYS PLAN FOR BOTH ENDS OF THE RANGE. THE LOWER END AND THE HIGHER END, BECAUSE THAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE INHERENT UNCERTAINTY OF WINTER STORMS. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL OF A GLAZE OF ICE, SOME FREEZING DRIZZLE FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS OVERNIGHT SOUTHEAST OF KANSAS CITY BEFORE THE SNOW BEGINS. BUT THIS IS PRIMARILY GOING TO BE A POWDERY OR FLUFFY SNOW. IT’S IT’S IT’S GOING TO BE A VERY HIGH SNOW TO LIQUID RATIO, ABOUT 15 TO 1. SO IT’S GOING TO BE VERY POWDERY SNOW. THE HEAVIEST OF THE SNOW WILL FALL ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 70. SO ANY SHIFT NORTH OR SOUTH IS GOING TO HAVE A GREAT IMPACT ON THE SNOWFALL RANGE HERE IN THE METRO. BETWEEN THREE ON THE LOW SIDE, SIX ON THE HIGH SIDE. COMMUNITIES LIKE OLATHE LEE’S SUMMIT AND THEN ANYWHERE FROM 5 TO 8IN PARKVILLE UP NEAR THE AIRPORT. PLATTE CITY, LIBERTY AND THEN HEAVIER AMOUNTS HERE ACROSS FAR NORTHERN MISSOURI. LOWER AMOUNTS DOWN TO THE SOUTH, ABOUT 3 TO 5 THERE IN BELTON AND HARRISONVILLE, 3 TO 4. BUTLER, CLINTON, WARSAW, WHERE THERE COULD BE A LIGHT GLAZE OF ICE. AGAIN, KEEP THAT IN MIND. CONSIDER THE ENTIRE RANGE COULD BE AS LITTLE AS THREE, COULD BE AS MUCH AS EIGHT. THIS IS AN UPDATED FUTURE SCAN HERE. SO OVERNIGHT THROUGH TOMORROW MORNING YOU START TO SEE THE DARK BLUE SHOWING UP AT 6:00 IN THE MORNING. SO THAT’S GOING TO BE A PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW LASTING THROUGH ABOUT LUNCHTIME. YOU CAN SEE THE DARKER BLUES MOVE OUT FROM WEST TO EAST, AND THEN THE REMAINDER OF WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING, LIGHTER TO MODERATE SNOW STILL ACCUMULATING BUT ENDING BETWEEN 6 AND 9:00 WEDNESDAY EVENING. SO THE IMPACTS YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS. WE MIGHT HAVE THAT BY SIX SEVEN, 8:00 TOMORROW MORNING. AND THIS WILL LEAD TO SCHOOL CLOSURES, CANCELLATIONS AT HOME LEARNING. I’M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT POWER OUTAGES. THAT’S A LOW CHANCE BECAUSE THE SNOW IS GOING TO BE REALLY POWDERY AND THE WIND IS NOT GOING TO BE AS STRONG. IT’S STILL GOING TO BE WINDY. TOMORROW WILL BE SOME GUSTS OF 25 MILES AN HOUR, BUT NOT 40 TO 45 LIKE WE HAD WITH THE BLIZZARD. SO A FEW FLURRIES POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT 12 HOURS. THE COLD IS LOCKED IN CLOUDY, BLUSTERY TEMPERATURES ONLY FLUCTUATING A FEW DEGREES THROUGH THE DAY. NOW IT DOES GET A LOT COLDER FOR TOMORROW’S WINTER STORM. ON OUR FIRST ALERT NINE DAY FORECAST. TEMPERATURES HOLDING IN THE LOW 20S. AGAIN, THE HEAVIEST OF THE SNOW FROM 6:00 IN THE MORNING THROUGH ABOUT NOON, AND THEN LIGHTER SNOW FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON TO THE EVENING. AND THEN PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. I WOULD PREPARE FOR ADDITIONAL SCHOOL CANCELLATIONS ON THURSDAY BECAUSE OF THE LEFTOVER SNOW AND THE BITTER COLD, A LOW OF THREE, BUT WIND CHILLS AS COLD AS -15 DEGREES. VALENTINE’S DAY CLIMBING ABOVE FREEZING FOR FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY EVENING, AND ANOTHER STORM COMING IN ON SATURDAY AS AN IMPACT DAY. IT LOOKS TO BE A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW. THE STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY WITH THE AMOUNTS, BUT FOR NOW I WOULD JUST START THINKING ABOUT PREPARING FOR WINTER WEATHER DRIVING CONDITIONS AS COLD AIR COMES IN 34 IN THE MORNING, RAIN SNOW MIX, CODY DROPPING T

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