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Issued by The National Weather Service
Chicago, IL
8 am CDT, Sat., Mar. 28, 2009

... WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM CDT SUNDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SNOW AND SLEET... WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM CDT SUNDAY.

RAIN OR WET SNOW... OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET... WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON... THEN CHANGE TO ALL WET SNOW TONIGHT. SNOW COULD FALL VERY HEAVILY AT TIMES WITH SNOWFALL RATES OF 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR POSSIBLE AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY WITH ANY THUNDERSNOW THAT DEVELOPS. SNOWFALL TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO VARY GREATLY ACROSS THE WARNING AREA... HOWEVER SOME LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY PICK UP 6 INCHES OR MORE OF SNOW BY MIDDAY SUNDAY.

IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY SNOW... STRONG NORTHEAST TO NORTH WINDS... GUSTING TO OVER 40 MPH AT TIMES TONIGHT AND SUNDAY... WILL MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS MAY BE WET AND HEAVY ENOUGH TO PACK AND THUS NOT AFFECTED BY THESE STRONG GALE FORCE WINDS.

THIS STORM IS STILL DEVELOPING AND ANY DEVIATION IN THE EXPECTED TRACK OR FORECAST TEMPERATURE PROFILES COULD RESULT IN SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE FORECAST. PERSONS PLANNING TRAVEL SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR LATER FORECASTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM... AS TRAVEL COULD BECOME EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TONIGHT INTO EARLY SUNDAY.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET... ICE... OR STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.

... LOCALLY HEAVY SNOWFALL EXPECTED TONIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING...

.AN INTENSE LATE WINTER STORM IS GATHERING STRENGTH OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO LOWER MICHIGAN BY SUNDAY. MOISTURE FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL CONTINUE TO BE DRAWN NORTH AND WEST AROUND THIS DEEP CIRCULATION OF THIS POWERFUL STORM AND INTO THE COLD AIRMASS ALREADY IN PLACE. AS THIS OCCURS A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW WILL LIKELY FALL TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE TRACK OF THE LOW. SNOW TOTALS ARE EXPECTED TO VARY GREATLY WITH THIS STORM WITH SOME AREAS LIKELY SEEING MORE THAN 6 INCHES OF SNOW.

The only good thing about spring snowstorms is that the snow tends to disappear quickly.