WINTER STORM WARNING
Warning Issue Date: 444 AM EST MON DEC 07 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
7 AM EST THURSDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WINTER
STORM WARNING FOR A MIXTURE OF SNOW...FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET...WHICH
IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 AM EST THURSDAY. THE
WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
* EXPECT TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 8 TO 12 INCHES BY DAYBREAK
THURSDAY.
* LOW PRESSURE THAT WAS STRENGTHENING OVER THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES
WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD SNOW OVER SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN LATE
THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY SNOWFALL
THROUGH MIDNIGHT.
* SNOW WILL LIKELY MIX WITH SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN LATE TONIGHT
AND WEDNESDAY MORNING. A SMALL COATING OF ICE WILL BE POSSIBLE.
* ANY MIX OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WILL TRANSITION TO SNOW
TOWARD MID DAY WEDNESDAY. LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL
INTENSIFY 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 SINGLE DIGITS BY LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
IMPACTS...
* ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME SNOW COVERED BY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON...POSSIBLY IMPACTING THE TAIL END OF THE COMMUTE
HOME.
* 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 THIS EVENING OR FROM 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.
* A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW...
SLEET...AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR
IMPOSSIBLE.
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