Missouri, U.S. – If you are going out, especially driving in Kansas City, Missouri, you have to be extra careful as the city is being hit with thundersnow.
Converseer reports that the area is experiencing 35-mile-per-hour winds with visibility of less than a quarter mile, on Saturday.
According to reports, over half the U.S. population will see temperatures at or below 32°F in the next 7 days.
“This could be the heaviest snowfall in over a decade… [with] dangerous to impossible driving conditions,” NWS said in a statement.
According to the Weather Channel reporter, 7 blizzards in no time as cars and heavy-duty vehicles swerved on the highways.
“You have to go cut the tip. See, I told you right there. We just had it again. That’s guys, that’s number seven. Thundersnow here in Kansas City.
“Now, we’ve had a couple of bolts, so this is the energy coming up again from the south. And what’s really interesting is notice we can’t even see the city now. It’s all like a whiteout.
“So the visibility has come down, the snow intensities come up.
“When you’re in rain, a lot of times when you’re in a thunderstorm, it’s heavier precipitation, and that’s exactly what we’ve got going on.
“The only thing is, the same thing’s happening in the thunderstorm. It’s just happening above the cold air. So it’s all frozen. And that’s what we’ve got going on here in Kansas City.
“I knew that scraping would get me some kind of good luck today. Either way, this was not fun yesterday.
“I want to go back to north of Wichita yesterday because I want to show everybody this commonality, something to look for when you’re driving over and overpass.
“First of all, a lot of slipping and sliding. There wasn’t even a tenth of an inch of precip here, but it just glazed over everything.
“It glazed over everything here, as you can see, and that caused tractor trails to jackknife for hundreds of thousands of square miles out there across Kansas.
“A lot of that in the area now is all snow, all right, heavy snow. 1 to 2 inch per hour snow.
“Here we are coming across the road. Look at that turn, turning into the spin. Notice the commonality here.
“Everybody that’s coming over that bridge, that’s when they start to slide. So you’re coming around at an angle, right?
“You’ve got momentum on your tail, and that starts this. That starts the spin. Everybody’s got momentum.
“All the mass, the weight is on the tail of your vehicle coming around that corner, and it’s really over that bridge and overpass that we see the spin going on. All those examples, every single one of them.
“Now, a lot of times you could control it, but with a big rig like that, that’s a lot of weight, that’s a lot of mass on the backside of that thing.
“So he went into a fishtail, just like this guy, right in through here. Likely you’re going too fast, number one.
“And when you remember when you go over those bridges and overpasses and this could be a lesson for you today in Paducah, in Lexington, pad potentially into Jackson, Kentucky, where we’re expecting more freezing rain.
“Be on the lookout for those bridges and overpasses because they freeze first. They freeze first, and that’s where the problem is. All right, Molly, do we have the radar with the lightning over Kansas City?
“If we do, I want to show you guys this because there’s so much. It just happened again. Guess where we’re standing this morning. You see the yellow light? That’s it right there. That’s where we’re standing this morning.
“Thundersnow, right over Kansas City. Absolutely nuts, Steve. This is the seventh time this has happened to us. Can you believe this? But also notice the darker blue. So you got these conveyors…,” the report said.
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