{"id":297623,"date":"2010-02-09T11:43:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=17012"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T16:43:26","slug":"forecast-calls-for-6-12-inches-of-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/297623","title":{"rendered":"Forecast calls for 6-12 inches of snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17179\" title=\"snowfall-in-chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/snowfall-in-chicago-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>A winter storm warning is in effect through early Wednesday for a system which could drop up to 12 inches of snow across the area.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued the warning Sunday night for a storm which could leave nearly a foot of snow during peak drive times Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters say the storm, which may last through early Wednesday, could deliver between 6 inches to 12 inches of snow in under 24 hours. <span id=\"more-17012\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That storm will be accompanied by wind gusts up to 30 mph. The highs both today and Tuesday will be around 28 with the lows around 20.<\/p>\n<p>Flurries could start as early as 8 p.m. tonight but the storm is only expected to bring about 1 to 3 inches overnight. Then, following a small break, the flakes will start to fall heavier and the wind will kick up Tuesday afternoon and evening, depositing another 4 inches to 9 inches across the area before the storm moves through Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The potential exists for near white-out conditions to develop in outlying areas Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The warning covers all of the areas in the north central part of the state, including Chicago, Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake and Will counties.<\/p>\n<p>A second winter storm may follow starting Sunday, Feb. 14, which could bring three straight days of precipitation.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a title=\"Forecast calls for 6-12 inches of snow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=357506&amp;src=143\"  rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wxzrOsCNWFZwDwzsinq240xk8YM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wxzrOsCNWFZwDwzsinq240xk8YM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wxzrOsCNWFZwDwzsinq240xk8YM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/wxzrOsCNWFZwDwzsinq240xk8YM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=5xSWrQroOdg:dqzs02SAbHg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=5xSWrQroOdg:dqzs02SAbHg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=5xSWrQroOdg:dqzs02SAbHg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=5xSWrQroOdg:dqzs02SAbHg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/5xSWrQroOdg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winter storm warning is in effect through early Wednesday for a system which could drop up to 12 inches of snow across the area. The National Weather Service issued the warning Sunday night for a storm which could leave nearly a foot of snow during peak drive times Tuesday. Forecasters say the storm, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}