7:00 AM | **Snow and ice late tonight and tomorrow with significant new accumulations; weekend storm possible**

6-Day Forecast

Today

Partly sunny, cold, highs in the mid 30’s

Tonight

Snow develops after midnight and could mix with sleet and freezing rain towards daybreak, 2-4 inches of snow by daybreak, cold, lows in the upper 20’s

Wednesday

Snow, sleet and freezing rain early in the day changes to sleet and/or freezing rain for the remainder of the day, an inch or two of new snow and ice on Wednesday makes for a total of 3-6 inches for this storm, cold, low 30’s

Wednesday Night

Mostly cloudy, cold, low 20’s

Thursday

Mostly sunny, cold, low 30’s

Friday

Mostly cloudy, cold, low 30’s

Saturday

Becoming cloudy, cold, chance for snow late in the day or at night, low 30’s

Sunday

Mostly cloudy, cold, chance for more snow, low 30’s

Discussion

If I could give some advice to the National Weather Service, it would be to just put a “winter storm watch” out for this area until mid-February. One snowstorm began the work week and we are not even close to being done with the stormy pattern that will last right into mid-month. A second and complex storm will spread frozen precipitation our way tonight and there will be an accumulation of snow by morning and then a wintry mix will continue for much of the day on Wednesday; especially, in the N and W suburbs. Expect slick road conditions later tonight and early tomorrow with this latest batch of snow and ice. Dry and cold air follows for Thursday and Friday and then attention will turn to the Deep South. A storm looks like it will pull out of the southern states later this weekend and head towards the east coast with lots of moisture, but there are still lots of details left to be ironed out for this system.

Video

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