Winter Storm Q To Hit Midwest

Winter Storm Q is now heading into the Plains and Midwest. Wednesday night through early Friday, Winter Storm Q will unleash significant, widespread snow and ice impacts in the central states.

The storm will produce the heaviest snow across parts of eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and northern Missouri.

Weather channel reports:

Snow may fall heavily, more than 1 inch per hour, for several hours as the center of “Q” crawls east across Kansas and Missouri. This will likely lead to some double-digit snowfall totals (in inches) along the Interstate 80 corridor, particularly across Nebraska, as well as the Interstate 70 corridor in northern Kansas.

By Thursday, stretches of Interstate 80 in Nebraska and Interstate 70 in northern Kansas may close, due to heavy snow, as well as blowing/drifting snow.

Farther south, sleet and freezing rain will pose travel problems for parts of southern Kansas, Missouri, northern Oklahoma and northern Arkansas beginning Wednesday night.

Freezing rain and sleet will continue Thursday in parts of central/southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas.

By Thursday night and Friday, the ice threat shifts east into parts of downstate Illinois, central/southern Indiana, far northern Kentucky, central/southern Ohio, West Virginia, western Virginia and possibly far northwestern North Carolina.