WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
Warning Issue Date: 430 AM EST TUE DEC 08 2009
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THURSDAY...
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
4 PM EST THURSDAY. THE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
* SNOW...OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WILL CONTINUE THIS
MORNING. ANOTHER 1 TO 3 INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED BY NOON. WINDS
AND OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWERS WILL INCREASE IN INTENSITY BY MID
AFTERNOON. PERIODS OF HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW IS EXPECTED INTO
TONIGHT.
* WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND LAST INTO THURSDAY. THESE WINDS WILL CAUSE CONSIDERABLE
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. VISIBILITIES WILL FREQUENTLY BE
REDUCED TO LESS THAN A HALF AT TIMES THIS EVENING INTO THURSDAY.
* GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL
PRODUCE WIND CHILLS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS BY TONIGHT.
* EXPECT ADDITIONAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 9 INCHES THROUGH
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
IMPACTS...
* ALL TRAVEL WILL CONTINUE TO BE DIFFICULT THROUGH THURSDAY.
* TRAVEL WILL BE MOST SEVERELY IMPACTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS
SNOW... BLOWING SNOW...AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES OCCUR
NEAR THE TIME OF THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE.
* POWER OUTAGES WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING
DUE TO THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* IT WOULD BE BEST NOT TO TRAVEL TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY.
* IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND
WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
* A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BLOWING SNOW MEANS THAT
VISIBILITIES WILL BE LIMITED DUE TO STRONG WINDS BLOWING SNOW
AROUND. USE CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING...ESPECIALLY IN OPEN
AREAS.
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