TRACKING SNOW: Winter Storm Watch coming for WKOW viewing area

“There is a good chance that much of the area will see 3-6” of snow starting Saturday morning lasting through the day and into the early evening. A heavy bad of snow is forecast along the Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and IL boarders.

Make sure to have bottles of water and snacks in your vehicle in case you get stranded on the roads during winter weather.

The snow is expected to ease after 7 a.m. Saturday and will be followed by mostly sunny weather, with a high of 29 degrees.

The snowfall will begin shortly after sunset Friday and end Saturday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

Areas north of Interstate 80-including DuPage, Cook, LaSalle, Grundy, Kendall, and Will counties-could see 2 to 5 inches of snow.

Heavy weekend snow – up to 10 inches – is in the forecast for MI, Wisconsin and northern IL.

The bottom line is that roads will be snow covered, with a few drifting and greatly reduced visibility, making travel hazardous.

Much of Interstate 70, Colorado’s main east-west highway, was closed because of blizzard conditions on the state’s Eastern Plains as well as in northwest Kansas, where up to 15 inches of snow and heavy winds are in the forecast. Saturday highs will only reach the freezing mark with wind chills in the 20s as winds will reach over 20 miles per hour. The weather service recorded 58 miles of wind gusts per hour at the airport.

Lake-effect snow will linger in the Great Lakes snowbelts, south of Buffalo, New York, and north of Syracuse toward Oswego, New York, and the Tug Hill Plateau. Saturday night will be very cold with a low around 22, according to the weather service. South of I-696 will be tricky because of a rain and snow mix for the start of the wet weather. Five of the past nine Novembers in the Brew City haven’t even produced one-half inch of snow, total. Other areas could get anywhere from nothing to 4 inches.