Here’s when you can expect snow to start in KC as winter storm moves through metro
Rain is expected to change over to snow late Tuesday with roads becoming slick soon afterwards, according to an updated forecast by the National Weather Service in Kansas City.
“I’m really expecting toward the midnight hour conditions to rapidly deteriorate in the metro area,” said Brad Temeyer, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Kansas City, during an afternoon briefing on the approaching winter storm. “As those snowfall rates really increase through Wednesday morning, it will create difficult to hazardous travel across the metro area.”
Rain will begin to switch over to snow between 9 p.m. and midnight in the Kansas City area and then continue overnight into Wednesday morning.
The winter storm is expected to bring significant snowfall amounts to the area, although there remains some uncertainty in the forecast as a slight shift in the path of the storm could affect snowfall totals.
Between 6 and 10 inches of snow is expected in the Kansas City area, with the higher amounts occurring in the southern part of the metro.
Meanwhile, areas near St. Joseph will see between 3 and 7 inches of snow. The heaviest snow will fall south and east of Kansas City, into central Missouri, where more than a foot of snow is possible. Between 9 and 13 inches of snow is likely in Sedalia.
The snow will come in two pushes, Temeyer said. Snow from the first push will taper off late Wednesday morning with the second push arriving Wednesday evening and continuing into Thursday.
The second half of the storm will have the largest impact on areas south of Interstate 70, primarily along and south of a line from Paola, Kansas, to Macon County, Missouri.
Colder air is expected to filter in behind the storm system, sending temperatures plunging to near zero Friday morning.
This story was originally published February 1, 2022 at 5:13 PM.
