Looking Ahead to Early Next Week
By early next Monday and continuing into Tuesday, two storm systems will affect the area. Wth the primary low/frontal passage, it looks like some accumulating snows would be possible from Eastern Iowa, far Northeastern Missouri, Northern Illinois, Southern and Eastern Wisconsin, far Northwestern Indiana and Western and Southwestern Michigan. Could be along the line of 2-4 inches with an area of sleet or freezing rain. Across most of Indiana and Western Ohio, we will remain the warm sector and will likely showers and thunderstorms.
As the boundary pushes through the area it stalls and allows a secondary area of low pressure to ride up the boundary. The first storm and passage of the boundary will have caused a much colder airmass to move into the Midwest and Ohio Valley as a strong high pressure system slides Southeast into the North Central Plains.
It looks like the boundary will stall from about Mephis up to Cleveland with heavy rain continuing East and Southeast of the boundary with a conditional severe weather threat. To the Northwest and North of the boundary, snow develops from Northern Arkansas, Western Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Western and Northwestern Ohio and possibly into Michigan. Of course the potential will be there for some gusy winds as the system strenghens and slides Northeast.
