Wind and cold to accompany this weekend’s snowfall

Posted on January 18, 2019

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch starting Friday evening and lasting until Saturday night. (WJBC file photo)

By Dave Dahl

LINCOLN – For the second weekend in a row, expect snow. And Heather Stanley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Lincoln, says there will be a factor this time that is unlike last time.

“We will be expecting some pretty stout winds with this event,” Stanley told a conference call Thursday afternoon. “We are going to have winds out of the north to northeast, 20 to 25 miles per hour, gusts exceeding 30 to 35 miles per hour. Blowing snow, drifting snow is going to be a problem regardless of where exactly you are.”

Single-digit temperatures are expected Saturday and Sunday night.

The storm system will cover an area from, as Stanley put it, from Central Illinois to the I-70 corridor.

Bloomington has a 45 percent chance of six inches or more and a 24 percent chance of eight inches or more

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