Snow only fell in the southeastern part of South Dakota, down to Nebraska and Northwest Iowa, but a few areas are dealing with a lot more snow than others.
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It is not unusual for snow to fall in the Midwest before Thanksgiving, Terry said.
National Weather Service meteorologist Amy Seeley says Boone and McHenry counties and adjacent areas of Wisconsin had the highest storm totals as of 8 a.m. Saturday, with 14.6 inches reported in Capron, which is about 60 miles northwest of Chicago.
Drivers in central and eastern Iowa will likely have a rough evening commute with six to 10 inches of snow expected, Otto said.
The IL Department of Transportation is reporting snow and ice covering roads in northwestern IL as the season’s first winter storm rolls in.
A snow plow heads heads down a street Friday, November 20, 2015 in Sioux Falls, S.D. Morning commuters dealt with slick roads as the first significant snowstorm of the season began developing over parts of the Midwest.
Schrek says it’s common to have different snowfalls totals around Sioux Falls with every snow, but not to this extent.
Heavy weekend snow is also in the forecast for parts of Wisconsin, MI and IL.
Already, southern South Dakota saw significant snowfall and poor traveling conditions on Friday morning, with up to 8 inches of snow expected by Friday evening.
Tractor-trailers are pulling off slow-moving interstates to park for the day, said Bret Brown, a cashier at Roadway Express truck stop in Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, reached 11 degrees Saturday and the town of Estherville in northern Iowa was even colder at 6 degrees with a wind chill of minus 4, the weather service said. The storm kept three South Dakota college football teams – USD, SDSU, and USF- all cooling their spikes at the terminal. Grand Rapids in western MI had about 3 inches.
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The National Weather Service office in White Lake, Mich., issued a winter-weather advisory for all of lower MI effective from 5 a.m.to 9 p.m. today.
