While Friday morning across the Chicago area may appear quiet and mostly dry, a complex winter storm system set to bring heavy snow and rain is expected to create travel headaches by the time the Friday afternoon commute hits, the NBC 5 Storm Team says.
While timing remains the same for the counties in the winter weather advisory, precipitation in those parts is more likely stay in the form of rain potentially transitioning to snow, the NBC 5 Storm Team says. However, the rate of precipitation is could snarl roads.
"Plan on hazardous road conditions including the Friday afternoon and evening commute," the NWS says."If snow falls hard enough, some slushy accumulations are possible on untreated roads." Additionally strong winds are likely to last much of the day, with the strongest gusts between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., forecast models show.According to the NBC 5 Storm Team, heaviest snow is most likely to fall east of I-57, where a winter storm warning will go into effect at 12 p.m. In those parts and in Northwest Indiana, quick, heavy snowfall is most likely to occur, with four to seven inches of snow predicted.
In central Illinois, where at 12 p.m. counties including Cook will be under a winter weather advisory,"slushy snow accumulations up to an inch" is expected, the NWS says, although totals of between two and four inches are possible. In those areas, temperatures are expected to remain in the mid to high 30s.
"The snow will be wet and slushy with temperatures near or just above freezing," the NWS says."if snow falls hard enough, some slushy accumulations are possible on untreated roads."By evening, snow and other forms of precipitation will slowly diminish, the NBC 5 Storm Team says.
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