WINTER STORM WATCH
Warning Issue Date: 1052 PM EST MON DEC 07 2009
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY EVENING
THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
* POTENTIAL FOR SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES.
* LOW PRESSURE THAT WAS STRENGTHENING NEAR LAS VEGAS WILL BEGIN
TO SPREAD SNOW OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN LATE TUESDAY
AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOWFALL THROUGH
MIDNIGHT.
* SNOW WILL LIKELY MIX WITH SLEET AND RAIN WEDNESDAY MORNING.
* ANY MIX OF RAIN AND SLEET WILL TRANSITION TO LAKE EFFECT SNOW
SHOWERS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WITH LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW BURSTS.
SNOW SHOWERS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH
DURING THE EVENING.
* GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL
PRODUCE WIND CHILLS IN THE RANGE OF 0 TO 10 BELOW BEGINNING
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
IMPACTS...
* ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SNOW COVERED BY EARLY TUESDAY
EVENING POSSIBLY IMPACTING THE TAIL END OF THE COMMUTE HOME.
* SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES ARE POSSIBLE AS WET SNOW COMBINES
WITH GUSTY WINDS TO BRING DOWN LIMBS TUESDAY EVENING AND
AGAIN WEDNESDAY EVENING DUE TO HIGH WIND GUSTS.
* TRAVEL WILL BE MOST SEVERELY IMPACTED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AS
SNOW... BLOWING SNOW...AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES OCCUR
NEAR THE TIME OF THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE. NEAR BLIZZARD
CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING...ESPECIALLY
ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 131.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
* IT WOULD BE BEST NOT TO TRAVEL TUESDAY EVENING OR FROM LATE
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.
* IF YOU MUST TRAVEL...KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT...FOOD...AND
WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
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JK
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