Insider Blog: Tracking accumulating light snow on Saturday
The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team is tracking the first potential snowfall of the season as a quick moving system arrives in Mid-Missouri early on Saturday.
This type of winter system, called an Alberta Clipper, is typically characterized by a fast storm motion, drier air, and less moisture. Snowfall amounts are usually low and the snow type is dry and fluffy.
We're expecting snow to arrive to northwest Missouri before sunrise on Saturday morning, moving into areas up near Marshall, Brunswick, and Moberly after 6:00 a.m., then progress southeast throughout the day, arriving in Columbia and Jefferson City by mid-morning and exiting to the southeast by late afternoon.
If you have travel plans, shopping around town, or heading to the MU football game, roads will bet wet and visibility could be a challenge on the interstates, but winds will be fairly light and won't create whiteout conditions.
Road temperatures will be lowest before 10:00 a.m., and will stay above freezing for much of the afternoon, so travel impacts are expected to be limited. However, bridges and overpasses may be slick into Sunday morning due to frigid morning low temperatures in the upper teens.
Much of Mid-Missouri will see anywhere from a dusting to 1" of total snowfall, with isolated higher pockets around 1.5" possible where we see some very narrow snow banding set up.
The track and timing of this system will likely shift a bit in the coming days, so make sure you have the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather app to get latest hour by hour timeline, forecast videos, and traffic alerts for your area over the weekend.
