While winter has not officially begun, the shovels and snow blowers were out from South Dakota through southern Minnesota, Iowa and southern Wisconsin to northern IL and Indiana. The National Weather Service said the snow would continue in IL and in on Saturday, as well as move into MI before heading northeast into Canada late Saturday.
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Southern South Dakota saw significant snowfall and poor traveling conditions Friday morning, with a foot or more of snow expected.
People walk about as first snow of the year falls, Friday, November 20, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Meanwhile, northern IL was under a winter storm warning, with six to 10 inches of snow expected.
The IL and MI Departments of Transportation warned that snow and ice-covered roads would slow travel. Winds of up to 25 miles per hour in a few areas produced blowing and drifting snow.
Skow says temperatures will drop Friday into the teens and twenties, and it will linger into Saturday.
People fired up snowblowers and dug out their shovels Saturday after a storm system dumped anywhere from three to 20 inches of snow across parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, IL and Indiana. Cities across the region are preparing snow-removal trucks and reminding drivers to give plows plenty of room. Much colder air was forecast to spill across the Midwest behind the storm.
A pedestrian crosses Lafayette Street through the first snowfall of the season in downtown Waterloo, Iowa, Friday, November 20, 2015.
“It looks like a foot, maybe more”, South Sioux Falls resident Dennis Kleinsassar said.
Schreck says a warm front right above Sioux Falls is to blame for this great divide.
A spokesman for the South Dakota Highway Patrol says troopers have been busy with weather-related crashes in the Sioux Falls and Rapid City areas. Accident totals weren’t immediately available.
The National Weather Service says it’s the first significant snowstorm of the season, with widespread amounts of 4 to 8 inches of snow expected from Nebraska to MI with up to a foot in isolated spots.
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Winter storm warnings or advisories are posted for all of southern South Dakota. A few north and northwest suburbs had between 4 and 8 inches. “It’s just another snowstorm in northern IL”.
