On the menu for Thanksgiving in Kansas City: wintry weather, cold rain
Meteorologists are predicting a wintry mix early Thursday that will give way to cold rain, making the chair next to the Thanksgiving pie the best place to be.
The mix of winter weather is not expected to be severe, and FOX4 Meteorologist Karli Ritter, who provides weather updates to The Star, said temperatures should remain in the 30s.
“Ominous-looking radar returns on our FOX4 One radar this morning aren’t reaching the ground yet,” Ritter said, “but we will have that potential for wintry mix through early afternoon and then a cold rain all the way through this evening with more rain possible tomorrow.”
According to the National Weather Service, the wintry mix will move on from Kansas City into northwest Missouri in the afternoon. Areas north of St. Joseph — in both Kansas and Missouri — are covered by a winter weather advisory beginning at 9 p.m. and ending at 6 a.m. on Black Friday. Freezing drizzle there is expected to make road conditions along Interstate 35 and Interstate 29 hazardous.
But the National Weather Service said on Twitter that despite the daytime mix of winter-like weather and cold rain, road conditions shouldn’t be a problem until after sundown.
