A STRONG COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO SWEEP THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT...INTRODUCING WINDY AND SHARPLY COLDER CONDITIONS BY THE END OF THE WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE UPPER 20S AND LOWER 30S ON THURSDAY...THEN WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 20S BY FRIDAY. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL FALL INTO THE TEENS BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH A FEW LOCATIONS POSSIBLY DIPPING INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. BRISK NORTHWESTERLY WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL MAKE IT FEEL EVEN COLDER...WITH WIND CHILL VALUES PLUNGING TO AROUND ZERO THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING.
IN ADDITION TO THE COLDER WEATHER...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL BRING PERIODIC SNOW SHOWERS TO THE AREA FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND 1 INCH WILL BE LIKELY...WITH AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE ALONG AND NORTH OF THE I-74 CORRIDOR. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO MAKE PREPARATIONS FOR A POTENTIALLY SLICK COMMUTE HOME FROM WORK THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT, NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL, 214 PM CST TUE JAN 10 2012
Are you and your family prepared for the winter storm season?
Hopefully you have already had or planned your fall family safety stand down and have made preparations. If not, now is the time!!
Are you prepared to go with out power for more than a few hours?
If you don't hold family training and don't know what to do or how to prepare, please email or call me, I would love to help! Chaplain Mick, DiRT (Disaster Response Team)!
- Winter Preparedness
- Emergency Communications
- Get Home Bags, Grab and Go Bags, emergency kit preparations
- Home Fire Safety and more
3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
Proverbs 22:3
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