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Heavy Great Lakes Snow through Friday; Watching Potential for Major Winter Storm Late Week into this Weekend

Heavy lake effect snow will continue in the Great Lakes into Wednesday before another storm brings a widespread general snow followed by another round of heavy lake effect snow. A wide-ranging winter storm will produce great swaths of heavy snow, sleet, and treacherous freezing rain from the southern Rockies/Plains and Mid-South starting Friday and shifting toward the East Coast through Sunday. Read More >

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 DATE                                        WEDNESDAY 01/21/26                      THURSDAY 01/22/26
 TIME (LT)          16   19   22   01   04   07   10   13   16   19   22   01   04   07   10   13   16
                    4P   7P   10P  1A   4A   7A   10A  1P   4P   7P   10P  1A   4A   7A   10A  1P   4P   
 
 CLOUD COVER        BK   BK   SC   BK   BK   BK   BK   BK   BK   BK   SC   SC   SC   SC   SC   SC   SC
 CLOUD COVER (%)    60   60   50   55   60   60   65   60   60   55   40   35   30   35   30   35   35
 TEMPERATURE        34   30   29   30   30   30   34   37   34   29   28   28   27   26   33   36   33
 MIN/MAX TEMP                           30                  37                  26                  36
 WIND DIR           SE   SW    W    W    W    W    W   NW   NW    W    W    W    W    W    W    W   NW
 WIND (MPH)          5    5    6    6    5    4    3    2    2    2    3    4    4    3    3    3    3
 WIND GUST (MPH)                                                                                      
 PRECIP PROB (%)     0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0
 PRECIP TYPE                                                                                          
 6 HOUR QPF                 0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
 6 HOUR SNOW                 0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0
 6 HOUR ICE                 0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
 SNOW LEVEL (KFT)  5.0  4.8  4.7  4.8  4.9  4.8  5.8  6.1  5.7  4.8  4.5  4.4  4.0  3.6  3.9  4.3  4.3
 
 

--- PRECIP TYPE CODES --- 
CODE   TYPE
 T     THUNDERSTORMS
 R     RAIN
 S     SNOW
 I     SLEET
 Z     FREEZING RAIN