There’s a one-two punch of storms on the horizon. Here’s what we know
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After getting a dose of unexpected snow over the weekend, metro-east residents may see more snow at the beginning of the work week and at the end of the week.
The first storm is forecast to roll into the area on Monday and is expected to last until Tuesday night. This is part of a storm that was in the Bering Sea off Alaska on Thursday and is expected to move out of the Great Plains and into the Midwest on Monday.
According to Saturday’s forecast from the National Weather Service, the metro-east has about a 20% chance of getting 6 or more inches of snow in this storm and about a 50% chance of getting 3 or more inches of snow.
“You may start as snow, go to rain and go back to snow, depending upon how things progress,” said Chris Kimble, a National Weather Service meteorologist.
Northern Missouri and Illinois are more likely to receive the heaviest snowfall.
“The further north you go, the better chance you have of staying in snow for the duration of the event,” Kimble said. “The further south you go, the less chance of snow you have overall.
“I do think it’s a pretty good chance that we get at least some snowfall.”
As far as the next storm, Kimble said it was too early to say what type of precipitation the metro-east would get on Friday.
However, The Weather Channel has posted a forecast stating the metro-east could get 4 to 8 inches of snow Friday.
Kimble noted that we will have colder temperatures as compared to recent weather.
“Later into the week, there’s a pretty good cold air mass coming down from Canada,” he said.
The low on Saturday morning is expected to drop to 16 degrees.
In the storm over this weekend, the forecast called for about an inch, but several areas in the metro-east received over 3 inches.
This story was originally published January 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM.
