National Weather Service Issues Hazardous Weather Outlook for this Weekend
The NWS is monitoring multiple weather forecasts predicting a mix of rain, freezing rain, snow and ice to move across Indiana beginning Friday evening.
National Weather Service Issues Hazardous Weather Outlook for this Weekend
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION-JOHNSON-POPE-
HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-
WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES-LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER-RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID-710 AM CST FRI DEC 16 2016
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.
DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE OVER THE OZARK FOOTHILLS OF
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI THIS MORNING...MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF POPLAR
BLUFF.
DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM POPLAR BLUFF MISSOURI TO EVANSVILLE INDIANA. GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED ON SATURDAY...ESPECIALLY IN ANY THUNDERSTORMS.
TEMPERATURES WILL PLUNGE INTO THE TEENS SATURDAY NIGHT BEHIND AN
ARCTIC COLD FRONT. RAIN WILL END AS A PERIOD OF FREEZING
RAIN AND SLEET...THEN POSSIBLY A LITTLE SNOW. ACCUMULATIONS OF
WINTRY PRECIPITATION ARE FORECAST TO BE LESS THAN HALF AN INCH.
THE COMBINATION OF FALLING PRECIPITATION AND THE FREEZING OF WET
ROADS WILL RESULT IN ICY TRAVEL CONDITIONS...WHICH WILL PERSIST
INTO SUNDAY MORNING.
WIND CHILL READINGS EARLY SUNDAY MORNING WILL BE FROM ZERO TO 5
BELOW ZERO ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI. MOST OF WEST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA WILL
EXPERIENCE WIND CHILLS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS. WIND CHILL READINGS
SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY WILL FALL TO AROUND ZERO ACROSS THE REGION.