Looks to be 59 inches here in the metro, north to northwest, 612 inches. Some locations could have thunder snow and see more than that. Steve thank you, kurtis. The des moines Public Work Department says it is already been preparing the roads for the upcoming snow. They are applying brine to the citys 225 miles of snow routes. The snow begins to accumulate oncethe snow begins to accumulate the plows will be out , constantly until the snow stops and the snow routes are plowed. Then those same plows will start , work on the residential streets, the side streets. Parking bans on city streets will be in effect in most communities across central iowa because of the snow. As kurtis just told us, the snow will not arrive until after the stacey they start in just under an hour. Kccis eric hanson joins us live from Democratic Caucus site 62, thats Merrill Middle School on eric this is one of the 1681 Democratic Caucus sites around across the state. The crowd is already gathering. We are a full
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Shiri some wintry weather back in your friday forecast. This is what i have right now. Connecticut and into rhode island, and this will continue to impact areas south of the morning hour. We have got temperatures in the 50s, you guys, it is very, very mild. Scattered showers still on the map at 8 00 this morning reaches as far north as bedford, boston and worcester and steady and worcester and steadier rain across the cape, islands and south coast and only lasts us through lunchtime today. See how we are clearing out at lunchtime. Nashua, at 52. 53 our lunchtime temperature in boston. We turn partly sunny for a period this afternoon but we are not done with the wet weather yet. It 48 to 56 degrees today after morning scattered showers and fog but tomorrow we have snow on the map. This system getting closer the last 24 hours and we will go to expect totals coming up. Now over to Julie Grauert with a brandnew accident. This is not a highly traveled part of your morning commute. 93 south,
Until about 3 00 this afternoon, out into the worcester area, you could see the shades lightning up and thats where showers are starting to dwindle toward boston and expecting that around 4 00 this afternoon, snow will come to an end and this evening for the cape, between six and 7 00 p. M. And cape two to four inches of snow expected, two to four in parts of Southern New Hampshire and closer to the close down to the north shore, boston, south shore Central Massachusetts and thats our jackpot, pretty big jackpot at four to eight inches and working snow reports so far. Lets get you over to Sarah Wroblewski though because you have a close eye on visibility which is really struggling. Sarah with rain and snow accommodating, tricky travel from worcester to bedford to beverly, less than quarter of mile, so take it easy because we will continued to see the visibility rates reduced as the winds do pick up, gusting over 20 bedford to worcester, over 30, now 45 on nantucket. So really windy con
Rain snow line does work down the south shore to the canal midmorning tomorrow then out on the cape as we work through the morning hours, metro boston the purple shading that is snow and itll be steady to occasionally steady snow happening before everything winds down. First in the worcester hills around noon, 1 00, city of boston 2 00, 3 00 and then not leaving the cape until 5 00, 6 00 p. M. 57 inches of snow up to the mass, New Hampshire border, i think right at the border probably around 5. The two would apply to raymond and nashua. Come back into 495 corridor worcester itself about 57. South of town 57 inches of snow. Then you head farther south and this is where you will have i think enough leftover warm air to keep the snowfall totals less that happen 7 but probably still close to 5 inches. Plymouth and the bridgewater area, down to new bedford, fall river then working out about 2, 3, 4 inches of snow possible by the time it winds down and the outer cape about 2 inches of snow.