URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 248 AM CST SUN JAN 11 2015 MILLER-MARIES-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-DALLAS-LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-BARRY-STONE-TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST MONDAY... ...WINTRY PRECIPITATION EXPECTED TODAY AND TONIGHT... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLY MIXED WITH SLEET REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST MONDAY. .AS AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING... PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY BEGIN AS A SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN MIX BEFORE BECOMING MOSTLY FREEZING RAIN ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN JUST BELOW FREEZING BUT SHOULD WARM TO AROUND THE FREEZING MARK BY EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO HOVER RIGHT AROUND THE FREEZING MARK...SO PRECIPITATION TYPE MAY CHANGE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA. FOR THOSE AREAS WHERE TEMPERATURES EXCEED FREEZING THIS AFTERNOON...READINGS MAY COOL BACK TO BELOW FREEZING AFTER THE SUN SETS THIS EVENING...RESULTING IN AN ADDITIONAL WINDOW FOR FREEZING RAIN. THE HIGHEST ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI WHERE BETWEEN ONE AND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH OF ICE WILL BE POSSIBLE. AMOUNTS WILL TAPER OFF TO THE NORTHWEST WHERE A THIN GLAZE TO FEW HUNDREDTHS OF AN INCH WILL BE POSSIBLE ON THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS OF THIS ADVISORY. PRECIPITATION WILL BEGIN TO END FROM WEST TO EAST LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING...LIKELY AS A MIX OF LIGHT SNOW AND FREEZING DRIZZLE. FLURRIES OR FREEZING DRIZZLE MAY LINGER THROUGH THE MORNING ON MONDAY ACROSS THE EASTERN OZARKS. * TIMING AND AREAS AFFECTED...SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE EASTERN OZARKS GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A CASSVILLE...TO SPRINGFIELD TO OSAGE BEACH LINE FROM EARLY SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH MID MORNING MONDAY. WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD INTO FAR SOUTHERN MISSOURI SUNDAY MORNING AFTER 4 AM AND INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI AND THE EASTERN OZARKS BY LATE MORNING SUNDAY. * SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATIONS...TRACE AMOUNTS OF SLEET AND SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE. * ICE ACCUMULATIONS...A THIN GLAZE UP TO TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH OF ICE IS EXPECTED. THE HIGHER ACCUMULATIONS WILL OCCUR ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ESPECIALLY BRIDGES...OVERPASSES AND UNTREATED ROADS. WITH TEMPERATURES HOVERING NEAR FREEZING...TRAVEL CONDITIONS COULD VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM WET TO ICY OVER SHORT DISTANCES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF WINTRY PRECIPITATION WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. traveler.modot.org/map/
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 09:19:33 +0000
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