Snow arrives Monday, widespread slick journey possible

A style of the Arctic has come for Kansas.  Few had been fortunate sufficient to get close to freezing this afternoon.  

Temperatures are bitter and dip to the kids and twenties tonight forward of a fast transferring system.  

This system will present many extra Kansans with their first accumulating snow of the season. Clouds are on the transfer at the moment and can thicken in a single day.  

Snow will seem first over our northwest counties after 10 PM Sunday and unfold east/southeast into Monday morning.  

Snow will strategy the Wichita space in the course of the second half of the morning rush.  

The lunch hour and the drive residence can be slicker and slower.  Anticipate delays, permit a number of additional minutes to drive round city, cut back your velocity and provides your self sufficient stopping distance between you and the drivers round you.  

A Winter Weather Advisory goes into impact on Monday, expanded west to Wakeeney and Dodge City, beginning at midnight, and from 3 AM to six PM for parts of Central and Northeast Kansas. This additionally consists of Wichita and Sedgwick County.

Within the advisory, we are going to discover the upper snowfall accumulations and higher impacts to journey. Generally, a hint to an inch will fall across the Wichita Metro.  From Highway 50 to I-70, anticipate an inch or two. Higher quantities of two″ to 4″ are anticipated alongside I-70 close to Hays to the northeast a part of the state towards Kansas City.

This might not sound like a lot snow, however given the chilly temperatures, this may accumulate and trigger slick journey on Monday.  Afternoon highs on Monday will keep under freezing for a lot of communities.  Towns within the west will see some late day sunshine upon this method’s departure.  

Temperatures will heat on Tuesday because the core of the brutal chilly pushes east.  Overnights will nonetheless be frigid and under freezing this week.  There can be one other reinforcing shot of colder air by Thursday earlier than temperatures rebound into the weekend.  

There could also be sufficient moisture for a number of flurries within the west.  A stronger system gels to our south and skirts shut sufficient Thursday evening into Friday that areas of Southeast Kansas might be able to partake in just a little extra snow and/or a wintry combine.  The observe and the way far north this goes can be a figuring out issue this week.

KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman:
Wichita:
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. 20% probability of snow. Lo: 23 Wind: NE/SE 5-15
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy. 70% probability of snow. Hi: 31 Wind: SE/NW 5-15
Tomorrow Night: Mostly cloudy to principally clear. Lo: 17 Wind: NW/W 5-15

Wichita Weekly
Tue: Hi: 42 Lo: 27 Mostly sunny to partially cloudy.
Wed: Hi: 42 Lo: 18 Mostly cloudy, breezy.
Thu: Hi: 34 Lo: 25 Mostly cloudy. 20% probability of a wintry combine.
Fri: Hi: 43 Lo: 27 Partly cloudy, breezy.
Sat: Hi: 47 Lo: 29 Partly cloudy.
Sun: Hi: 42 Lo: 24 Partly cloudy, breezy.

–Chief Meteorologist Lisa Teachman