Snow possible Monday night into Tuesday

Winter isn’t done with Illinois yet.

After a mild weekend, rain is expected to move into Illinois Monday and turn a bit messy overnight and into Tuesday with a chance of snow.

Significant snow accumulations aren’t likely throughout the Shaw Local News Network area.

According to the National Weather Service, a late season storm system may bring accumulating wet snow to the area late Monday night into Tuesday evening, with accumulations primarily on non-paved surfaces. The greatest potential will be east of I-55, especially into northwest Indiana, late Tuesday afternoon and evening. Sub-freezing temperatures Tuesday night and again Wednesday night will result in a significant freeze risk.

Rain is expected to start Monday night, then change to a mix of rain and snow throughout the day Tuesday, with temperatures hovering in the 30s during the day and dropping to the 20s Tuesday night.

“Low pressure will track along a cold front dropping southward through the central U.S. through early Wednesday. That front will send temperatures plummeting as much as 15 to 30 degrees colder than average for this time of year in the Plains and Midwest,” according to the National Weather Service.

The heaviest snow is expected in the Rockies, where some areas are likely to pick up more than 6 inches.

Farther east, an area from eastern Colorado, Nebraska and Kansas to northern Missouri, southern Iowa, northern and central Illinois, northern Indiana, northern Ohio and southern Lower Michigan will pick up 1 to 3 inches of slushy accumulation.