Snow has already started falling in Kansas, earlier than forecasters expected, but the heaviest snow is still forecast to start later this evening, Wichita-based National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Baerg said during a Friday morning webinar.
He showed a photo of snow accumulation in the grass off of highways in Russell, where he said it started snowing about an hour earlier and “about six hours ahead of time.”
“We were expecting a lot of dry, low level air in the atmosphere,” Baerg said. “So it may have been snowing 10, 15,000 feet a lot, but, in this case, the snow was heavy enough that it’s actually eaten away at that dry air. It’s started to accumulate across central Kansas. So models are struggling to basically catch up with that snow that is ongoing and accumulating already.”…