Weekend Winter Woes

Cody's precipitation map from the last post sums up this upcoming storm pretty well. We're going to see freezing rain and even rain showers in the southeast section of our viewing area because temperatures are going to creep above freezing for Saturday. Here's a look at what Futurecast is showing for rainfall by Saturday afternoon: Keep in mind that part of these totals are rain along with freezing rain, so it's not all going to freeze upon hitting the ground, but when temperatures dip below the freezing mark in the evening and overnight hours, that's when we're going to be worried about re-freezing.

This system will affect the other half of our viewing area as well. But temperatures will stay colder and while this system will bring some freezing rain to the northern half of the state, we will see more snow in those areas from this storm from Saturday and Sunday. Locally, we could see up to a foot of snow in the northwest section of the viewing area and lighter amounts to the south. The reason for lighter amounts down south is because the precip. type in the south, again, is going to be more freezing rain and then changing to snow by Sunday.

Make sure you have a good scraper and shovel for this weekend!
~KDLT Meteorologist Jesse Ritka