By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostWe are under a winter storm
warning as all the stages of precipitation converge on the area.Meteorologist Ray Christensen
with the National Weather Service office in Pleasant Hill says showers and even
thunderstorms rolled through eastern Kansas this morning as the rain spread
through northeast Kansas, Northwest Missouri, into Nebraska and Iowa.Rain will turn into freezing
rain as the temperatures drop, especially in the late afternoon and early
evening hours.“We’re looking at maybe up to
a tenth of an inch, a glaze of icing, maybe a little bit more in some areas,”
Christensen tells St. Joseph Post. “It will definitely cause some issues with the
roads.”A winter storm warning has
been issued by the National Weather Service for the area from six o’clock this
evening until six o’clock tomorrow evening with a wide variety of precipitation
expected.Christensen says rain today
will turn into freezing rain, then sleet before snow moves in later tonight.“Probably between about the 9pm
and midnight timeframe, especially from St. Joe northward, that’s when it will start
changing over to snow up there and we’re looking at a good, at least six inches
of snow up in that area,” Christensen says.Predicted amounts of snowfall
varied a great deal earlier and seemed to indicate there wouldn’t be that much
accumulation. Christensen says the forecast for snowfall changed early this
morning with more now predicted than previously.NWS forecasts between five
and seven inches of snow by the time the storm moves out of the area tomorrow
evening.&nbsp;

Area under winter storm warning: rain, sleet, snow expected