Winter Weather Summary

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Winter Weather Summary
December 10, 2003 7:23 a.m.


Storm Heading for the Great Lakes..

The storm centered near St. Louis early this morning will track to near Detroit this evening, then up into eastern Canada by tomorrow morning. There will be a corridor of snow to the west and northwest of the storm track, leaving 1-3 inches generally from central Missouri to the Upper Michigan peninsula. However, within that corridor, there will be an area of higher snow amounts, that being in central Wisconsin to Upper Michigan. In that region there will be at least 3-6 inches, and with help off of Lake Superior, as much as a foot in central Upper Michigan. Wind gusts to 45 mph will add considerably to the travel problems.
Once the storm gets up into southwest Ontario later tonight, lake-effect snow and flurries will set in across western lower Michigan, and in southwest Ontario, near Lake Huron.
Out in the west, a moist onshore flow will mean heavy snow in the Sierra, 6-12 inches in the next 24 hours in the Central Sierra of California; as much as 3-6 inches in the Northern Sierra. Snow in the Washington and Oregon Cascades, in eastern Washington and Oregon, across northern and central Idaho, western Montana, into northwest Wyoming will leave 1-3 inches generally. There will also 1-3 inch snow amounts in northeastern Nevada, and in the Wasatch of Utah.