Overnight snow totals were 5 to 6 inches throughout Peoria County, with even higher totals reported to the west by Monday morning.
“As we move outside Peoria, west into Knox County, we’ve had totals in that area between 6 and 8 inches,” Chris Miller, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lincoln, said Monday morning. “The maximum amounts were around Abingdon and Galesburg, where they were between 7 and 8 inches.”
Parts of Stark County received more than 5 inches. Fulton (3 to 6 inches) and Marshall (3 to 5) counties saw much more snow than Mason (1 to 2 inches).
As anticipated, the heaviest snow fell along the Illinois River and to the west. Tazewell County reports showed snow at 1½ to 4 inches, and Woodford County saw accumulation of 3 to 5½ inches.
“There’s a pretty sharp line of where the rain changed to snow, from the southern part of Fulton County across northern Mason County, and the Tazewell-Logan county line,” Miller said. “The eastern extent of the snow was right around Bloomington, which had three-tenths of an inch. It was pretty much confined to the Tri-County Area and west and northwest.”
Miller said snow flurries are expected to continue Monday through Wednesday, with no notable accumulation projected.
Temperatures are projected to fall from recent highs in the 30s to highs in the 20s and single-digit lows from Wednesday into the weekend.
By Sunday, temperatures will climb back to highs in the 40s, Miller said.
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