COLUMBIA, MO (KMIZ) MoDOT’s crews have been out all day Saturday pretreating and treating roads throughout the winter weather event. Jason Shafer, the District Maintenance Engineer for MoDot, said the department’s main concern is ensuring enough treatment is applied to roads as they fight the low temperatures. Once temperatures get below the low 20’s the
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Plow crews have been working around the clock in Mid-Missouri in anticipation of snowfall Wednesday morning.
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AFTERNOON UPDATE: Accumulating snow is coming to an end in the early hours of this afternoon. A few flurries look like they’ll hang on but shouldn’t be complicating anything on the roads. Still need to take it slow out there, anything left on the roads could refreeze tonight. LATE MORNING UPDATE: After a cold day
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Check back for updates on the winter weather conditions around Mid-Missouri.
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AFTERNOON UPDATE (3:15 PM): Snow showers have tapered off quite a bit across the northern portion of the area, with ongoing snow for areas east of Highway 54 and south of Lake of the Ozarks. Clouds stick around tonight along with gusty winds, so travel might be tricky into the evening commute despite the snow
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Check back for updates on the conditions in Mid-Missouri.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) With high winds and snow in the forecast, officials say driving conditions could deteriorate quickly late Thursday into Friday morning. The ABC17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day through early Friday night for the potential of accumulating snow and strong gusty winds. MoDOT issued a warning about travel, saying
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FRIDAY LATE MORNING UPDATE: The worst of the conditions will be in our western counties. That’s in the process of changing over to snow if it hasn’t already and will start to pull east. Most locations east of HWY 65 have replaced freezing rain with near freezing drizzle. Temperatures will play an important role-if we
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The Columbia Department of Public Works is getting ready for winter weather moving in New Year’s Eve.
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day for Friday morning for the threat of dangerously cold wind chills on Christmas Day. Temperatures have dropped like a rock behind the front that moved through yesterday. Arctic air dropping south from Canada sticks around through tomorrow afternoon before exiting east and winds
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MONDAY EVENING UPDATE Light drizzle is coming down from Columbia to Jefferson City before 7:00 PM with the steadier rainfall south of Highway 54. Another batch of light snow and sleet is moving in from the west, but not much more accumulation is expected for the rest of tonight. However, temperatures will fall a few
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TONIGHT: A Weather Alert Day continues through this evening with light wintry precipitation in the form of sleet, snow, and freezing drizzle will be possible through about midnight. Lows fall to near freezing, allowing for elevated surfaces to remain slick along with side streets and sidewalks. TOMORROW: Clouds hang on for the morning with most
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Rain that mixed in with the snow Monday made it impractical to apply anti-freezing treatment to Columbia’s road, an official said.
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The Missouri Department of Transportation says there are a number of things drivers need to keep in mind as winter weather makes its first push of the year into mid-Missouri.
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A Weather Alert Day has been issued ahead of strong, potentially damaging winds today. Despite expected warmer temperatures this afternoon, it will be tough to spend much time outside with strong gusty winds expected out of the southwest. A deep area of low pressure to our northwest will battle with high pressure to our southeast,
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SYNOPSIS A cold front continues to track south across northern Missouri Monday afternoon. Instability values are expected to be very high due to the heat and humidity expected. Wind shear looks relatively low, so a tornado threat looks low at the moment. Damaging wind, flash flooding and hail look like greater threats. TIMING Storms have
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team has issued a Weather Alert Day in effect today through tonight for the potential of dangerous heat. A Heat Advisory is in effect for the entire viewing area for heat indices between 105-107 on Sunday. The jet stream will continue to lift north this week, with high pressure building
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The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather team has issued a Weather Alert Day for the potential of strong to severe storms by this evening into late Saturday night. Storms diminished to our west early this morning, leaving the environment in better shape for ingredients to come together by afternoon. Plenty of instability is available for storms
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Monday Morning Update:It’s starting to look like we may have avoided the worst of the flooding threat so far. We’ll continue to monitor trends on radar, but the area of concern has shifted more into Illinois this morning. There’s still a chance we pick up some afternoon showers & storms, east of HWY 63. A
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TONIGHT: Scattered storms early, with heavy rain moving in overnight for areas along and north of I-70 through morning. Rain amounts will be between 2-4″ with the highest amounts across northeast Missouri. Lows in the low 70s. TOMORROW: Rain and storms early, becoming hot and humid with highs in the upper 80s and heat indices
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