Use caution if you have to be out anywhere in iowa tonight. Lots of blowing snow making roads treacherous for evening kccis vanessa peng is live in ames with current conditions. Vanessa when strong winds start whipping the snow around blowing snow can really create its own problems. Vanessa city, county, and state plow drivers can only do so much. You could start to clear the roadway and then we have isolated spots where you think the roads ok and somebody sets their Cruise Control again and they end up in a slick spot and spin out of control. Vanessa the problem is the wind makes certain areas of the road appear clear, but then the minute there is a wind break ice and snow piles up. Some of the closed areas, the protected areas, are the worst right now because the winds blowing most of the snow off where its not protected, but the protected areas is really bad. Vanessa on both the rural and take it slow, increase your following distance, and dont use your Cruise Control. Drive for the
Jasper, boone, story and marshall. Travel is not advised on i80 east between mitchellville and grinnell. Kccis Laura Terrell starts our team 8 coverage from along i80. Laura a snow covered interstate. Is leaving several cars scattered in the ditch along i 80 east, like this fed ex truck near mitchellville. Things were going too slow and i just didnt want to cause an accident or be in an accident. Laura truck driver jacob benson decided to just park it for the night. I parked here just for my personal safety. I found a place where i could park so i figured i would stop for the night. Laura Michael Morton and his family are only stopping for a quick rest stop break on their trip from sioux city to ohio. Weve seen six semis jackknifed. Weve seen two of them tipped over. Weve seen about four or five cars in the banks. Laura even though travel is not advised theyve decided to keep going just at a slower pace. We are doing about 40. And then with the truckers around, we drop down to about 30
Coverage right now at noon. Roads across central iowa and beyond, very slick as snow mixes with freezing rain in some areas. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us, i am mollie cooney. And well check out those latest Road Conditions in a live report straight ahead. We will also go live to the airport for an update on delays or cancellations, but we begin with frank for the latest on the storm and what to expect this afternoon. Frank we are seeing that snow of the metro. Moderate to at times heavy snow from west central iowa to northcentral iowa all the way back into eastern iowa. Down to the south and to the east, they have sleet. Notice as we widen this map out a little bit, we are going to catch a break in the action as north. That is the area of low pressure and that will continue to move off to the north and east. A winter storm watch, advisory, all over the area. A winter storm warning including the entire state of iowa. Kansas city right now, winter storm warning. Thi
Icy with a changeover to snow. Well have sleet and freezing rain right through noontime here in central iowa. We are talking about blowing snow and drifting snow with a lot of wind. Eric alyx sacks is out this morning keeping an eye on the roads as the storm moves north. Elizabeth she joins us live now, so alyx where are you right now and what are you seeing . Alyx good morning. We are driving south on 35. We passed the norwalk exit. So far so good. We are driving [inaudible] where driving around seeing if it can find it we are driving around seeing if we can find anything. It is awfully chilly outside. They are expecting quite a bit of snow to impact the roadways. Ice down south. It is going to make things very, very slick for that morning commute. The issa commission from five to eight inches the Ice Accumulation from i from five to eight inches. It is about 27 degrees. If we see any moisture, maybe it will be snow. We are going to keep our eyes on the roadways throughout the morning
Foot of snow to dig out from this morning. Meterologist sam schreier joins us right the snowfall sam sam adlibs sam sam weather adlib sam tags on cam tonight it should be very chilly as temps fall into the upper iowa with a very calm are going to see some more snow showers move through in the morning with a quick one to two inches possible, so the morning commute could be a bit slower. We are going to fall extra cold by the end of the week with highs in the upper teens on thursday and a high near 20 on friday. We should warm back into the 30s by the end of the weekend and into early next week with another snow possible around next tuesday. Elias lets get into the top five stories this morning. Elias and the weather is our top story. Bad roads, slipping and sliding and digging out. Road conditions were not great after a halffoot of snow fell. Well check back in with sam in a bit for more details. Elias number two is. Bit for more details. Elias number two is. What public works crews are