UPDATE – THURSDAY AM, 2/3/22 Snow continues to fly but isn’t as heavy as it was yesterday morning. Most folks that will pick up additional accumulations will only see minor additions from here on out. UPDATE – WEDNESDAY PM, 2/2/22 Steady snow has filtered back into Mid-Missouri with heavy bands setting up near Jefferson City
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Since we’re expecting significant snowfall and difficult travel beginning as soon as late tonight, were taking this time to make sure we have things we may need in the Stormtracker to hit the road tomorrow. We spoke with Sharon Watson, the regional Communications Director for the American Red Cross of Missouri and Arkansas. She often
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As arctic high pressure slides in from the north on Tuesday, temperatures will fall in the single digits bringing us yet another run in with dangerous cold. There is some good news in the forecast. We are rounding the corner off the coldest stretch of winter, at least with regard to historical averages. As of
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If it seems to you that winters just aren’t what they used to be, you may be on to something. According to data from Climate Central, winters have been getting warmer over the last 50 years. Lowest minimum temperatures fluctuate each year, but over the last five decades, their fluctuations have been trending warmer in
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The ABC 17 Stormtracker is newly updated. We’ve equipped it with a suite of new features to help us better track and alert you to severe weather of all kinds. You may even see us use this to cover breaking news. All of it will be to keep the community informed, and safe. On top
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The weather center has been busy lately; issuing Weather Alert Days and talking about bitter cold. Caught up in all of this has been some weather jargon that it’s now time to explain. Arctic high pressure fell right into mid-Missouri this week. This is something we’ve talked a lot about in the last week, but
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Temperatures have settled into the upper teens to around 20 as skies clear out this evening, with wind chills falling into the single digits. Overnight lows will hover between 5 to 7 degrees above zero, with wind chills a few degrees below. We’re about 20-25 degrees cooler than Monday evening. SETUP An Alberta clipper moved
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Temperatures have dropped and clouds exited as Arctic high pressure begins to settle over the Midwest for the rest of the work week, giving us some of the coolest air of the season so far. THURSDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Wind chills are in the single digits, and this is still expected to be the worst of
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Cold air will continue to rush in overnight into tomorrow morning. This will create dangerous conditions late tonight that will persist into early Friday. A common danger with cold like this is frostbite, as it doesn’t take long to do damage. With windchill values in the negative teens early tomorrow, the top layers of your skin can
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Watch a live-streamed newscast at 7 a.m. in the player below. The ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team is tracking the latest chance at accumulating snow that could impact Mid-Missouri early this weekend. With a complex situation, we’ll have the latest updates as we learn them below: SATURDAY MORNING UPDATE: Warm air has held stubbornly overnight
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SATURDAY MORNING UPDATE: A Winter Weather Advisory has been further extended for all of Mid-Missouri. The warmup may be delayed by cloud cover today, keeping more areas below freezing into the early afternoon. SETUP Southerly flow will bring us a warmup for the weekend, but it will also bring a surge in moisture on Saturday.
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A Weather Alert Day has been issued for Thursday, with frigid temperatures and snow expected.
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Sunday Morning Update: Icy and slick roads remain a concern this morning with temperatures in the teens and wind chills plummeting below 0 degrees. Expect poor travel conditions for the rest of the weekend and try to stay home as much as possible. Current road conditions for Mid-MO can be found here. Brutal Cold Temperatures
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The drought forecast for this winter had placed dry conditions across much of the United States for this winter, and it was spot on. The western half of the country remains at least abnormally dry, with many seeing severe to exceptionally dry conditions. Locally, mid-Missouri has seen its own stretch of dry weather, with conditions
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Wednesday will be calm for much of the Midwest, but as you head towards the coasts things become more active. And that’s the theme going forward, with travel impacts expected thanks to snow in the Intermountain West and a wetter than average pattern for the West Coast. Friday becomes more of the same for folks
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Outside of the Inter-Mountain West and far northern states, it’s going to be tough to come by snow for much of the U.S. before the new year, especially here in mid-Missouri. In December, we average around 3 inches of snow each year. While the month isn’t over yet, we’ve only had 5 day’s of precipitation,
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“Well my wife was home last Friday when the Tornado Siren went off, and uh so it was you know similar in nature. So we were like well, I guess this is the thing, we gotta go to the basement. We don’t know what’s going on, but.” Dallas Ernst, a Jefferson City resident, was in
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Strong south winds have helped shatter temperature records across Mid-Missouri this afternoon, but more pressing will be the threat for storms given the ripe environment this evening. A cold front moving into a moisture-rich, warm environment has triggered a line of strong to severe thunderstorms moving out of Kansas into far western Missouri Wednesday evening.
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A Wind Advisory is in place for the entire viewing area for tomorrow, as our next system approaches from the west. Really, this is all thanks to the upper level pattern across the central U.S. Low pressure in the west will move towards us, while high pressure to our south will barely budge. We get
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Severe weather on Friday brought tornado warnings across central Missouri, but so far, few tornadoes have been confirmed in our region. The National Weather Service has published preliminary reports of EF-0 damage in northeast Montgomery County, just north of Wellsville. Closer to St. Louis, Storms brought damage to communities from near Augusta to near Chesterfield, Missouri.
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