Storm dumps up to a foot of snow on parts of Midwest

The National Weather Service says heavy snowfall was expected Friday evening into early Saturday in parts of northwest and north central Iowa. But don’t look for it to be the picturesque light, fluffy snow that often occurs in the dead of winter, he said – much of it will be wet and heavy.

Meanwhile, northern IL was under a winter storm warning, with six to 10 inches of snow expected.

Parts of the Northern Plains are already feeling the impacts of the storm, which is set to bring the first accumulating snow of the season for many in the Upper Midwest, Corn Belt and Great Lakes.

Road conditions are deteriorating as they get covered in snow or ice.

In Iowa, Des Moines received 6 inches by late Friday and amounts of a foot or more were common in northern Iowa. Six to 10 inches of snow was expected in northern IL.

Utility company ComEd said it was increasing staffing to make sure crews are ready to respond to power outages.

National Weather Service Forecaster Todd Heitkamp says that 13-plus inches fell on the southside of town, which was double the accumulation on the northside, near Sioux Falls Regional Airport. That will place the heaviest snow in West MI over our southern counties.

Harvey Wollman, of Sioux Falls, uses a snow blower to clear the sidewalk near his house during the first snow of the season Friday, November 20, 2015, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The weather service says its records show two previous big snowfalls in November in Chicago: 8 inches on Nov. 6, 1951, and 7.5 inches on Nov. 26, 1975.

A Winter Weather Advisory will remain in effect for overnight Friday into Saturday night. Semitrailer trucks pulled off slow-moving Interstate 90 to park for the day, said Bret Brown, a cashier at a Roadway Express truck stop in Sioux Falls.

At Chicago’s O’Hare airport, arriving flights were being delayed by an average of 2 hours 15 minutes early Saturday.

While winter has not officially begun, the shovels and snowblowers were out from South Dakota and southern Minnesota, to Iowa, Wisconsin and northern IL.