We’re watching the backend of the storm now push through. It looks like mearureable snow has ended in most areas north of I-44 and will be ending by early afternoon across the rest of the area.
Totals as of 9 am range from 8 to 10″ in the southwest corner of Missouri near Goodman, Anderso,n and Rocky Comfort to a general 5 to 9″ elsewhere. We shouldn’t see too much more with this final wave, maybe another half an inch to an inch south of I-44. Areas around Springfield have picked up between 6 and 8″ of snowfall.
This is a very powdery snow, making it very easy to sweep off your vehicle of blow off your driveway.
Heading into the afternoon, we’ll find clouds holding on with a few flurries and afternoon highs in the low to mid-teens. There may be some hints of sunshine before the sun goes down. Skies will partially clear tonight and that will open the door to sub-zero lows Monday morning.
The cold pattern has locked in for the upcoming week. The cold will ease Tuesday and Wednesday, but morning lows in many spots will be in the single digits with afternoon highs in the low to mid 30s. With sunshine and temperatures around freezing, we’ll start to see some melt off of the snow on roads, especially those that have been plowed, driven on, and treated.
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Any melt will quickly refreeze during the evening, though, leading to areas of black ice. The pattern turns colder for the end of the week into this upcoming weekend. This will keep the snow cover in place and make it tough for any significant improvement on any roads that aren’t plowed and treated…