We recorded 18 inches of snow as a storm total in Glens Falls, New York state, and although the next winter storm (named “Indra”) wont be packing the same punch as the previous winter storm “Harper”, it will still have it’s own dangers.
The NWS has issued a Blizzard Warning, the highest level of winter warning issued from their department, for central north eastern parts of Colorado and the far NW of Kansas, as well as the southwestern most county of Nebraska. Blizzard conditions are imminent here with strong winds and high snowfall totals combining to bring extremely challenging or immobilizing travel conditions! Rates of over 1″ per hour are currently affecting these areas and will ease in the next 6 to 18 hours.
The focus for heavy snowfall then shifts further north east through the plains into Iowa, Wisconsin and the great lakes in the next 12 to 36 hours. Snowfall rates of 1 to 3 inches per hour will cause challenging driving conditions for parts of southern and eastern Iowa, the far NW of Missouri overnight tonight before swathing into southern Wisconsin, central Michigan with rates widely of 2-3″ per hour into later on Wednesday which is where we could see close to a foot building up. 10 inches seems possible far NW of Illinois into southern Wisconsin.
Snowfall totals: our Winter Storm IDRA risk map gives an indication of who and where will receive the most snowfall from this event.