LINCOLN, Ill. (AP) - Weather officials say a wintry mix of rain, freezing rain and snow slickened and snarled some Illinois roadways, and brutal cold is coming.
Meteorologist Dan Smith of the National Weather Service’s Lincoln office said Saturday that anywhere from an inch of snow to a few inches has fallen in northern areas, including Chicago. The state’s central region experienced freezing rain Friday leading to numerous crashes along Interstate 55, and mainly rain fell along the I-70 corridor and to the south.
Smith says another storm front moving through late Saturday could produce 1-3 inches of snow in northern Illinois. That will usher in “brutally cold” temperatures in the Chicago area on Sunday morning between zero and 10 degrees below zero - with a wind chill factor as low as minus-30.
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