By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
After having no snow for Christmas, a white New Years is in the forecast this weekend.
National Weather Service meteorologist Spencer Mell says that most of the snow will be in the northern part of Missouri, and St. Joseph is expected to get a good amount of it.
"As you get into the St. Joe area looking at probably now six to eight inches around St. Joe, as far as the latest forecast," Mell tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "As you head down towards Kansas City there's gonna be a little more of a transition time from sleet during the early morning on Saturday to that snow later Saturday morning, so their total is a little bit lower but we're still looking at three to six inches across the Kansas City metro."
Mell says that the winter weather being forecast is expected to begin just around the start of the new year, after midnight on New Years Eve.
"We're expecting the precipitation to move in after midnight on New Years Eve, so if anybody is going to be out there, make sure that they're paying attention to the weather and making sure they're getting to someplace safe before it does hit," Mell says. "Obviously conditions will become slick pretty quickly as temperatures are supposed to quickly drop on New Years Eve to well below freezing."
Temperatures are expected to be very cold, dropping into the teens.