UPDATE: 2:50 pm
Some late snowfall totals from Downstate..
Astoria 2.0"
Lincoln 1.3"
Chatham 2.0"
Havana 1.5"
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UPDATE 2:00 pm
At 2pm snow was falling south of Chicago in central Illinois
Peoria visibility 3/4 mile
Bloomington visibility 1/2 mile
Decatur visibility 1/2 mile
Kankakee visibility 1.5 mile
Springfield visibility 3/4 mile
Champaign 1/2 mile
Rantoul 1 mile
Some Downstate snowfall totals
Petersburg 1.7"
Minito 1.0"
Morton 1.1"
Pana 1.0"
Ogden 1.0"
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A weather disturbance moving through the southern Midwest will spread a band on snow across portions of central Illinois into northern Indiana. Up to 2 to locally 3 inches of snow could accumulate in areas from Joliet and Kankakee south northeast into portion of Lake and Porter counties in northwest Indiana.
KANKAKEE-LIVINGSTON-IROQUOIS-FORD-LAKE IN-PORTER-NEWTON-JASPER- BENTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...KANKAKEE...PONTIAC...WATSEKA...PAXTON... GARY...VALPARAISO...MOROCCO...RENSSELAER...FOWLER 1105 AM CST MON DEC 31 2012 /1205 PM EST MON DEC 31 2012/ ...PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AROUND OR SHORTLY AFTER MIDDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE INTERACTS WITH A SURFACE COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THE SNOW COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES BETWEEN NOON AND 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON...WHICH MAY RESULT IN VISIBILITIES FALLING UNDER A HALF MILE IN SOME OF THE HEAVER SNOW. THE SNOW IS EXPECTED TO QUICKLY ABATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH ONLY SOME LIGHT SNOW AND FLURRIES LINGERING INTO THE EVENING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL VARY WIDELY ACROSS THE REGION...WITH A VERY SHARP NORTHERN GRADIENT BETWEEN NO SNOW AND AN INCH OR TWO. IT APPEARS THE HEAVIEST SNOW...OF 1 TO 2 INCHES...WILL FALL ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR PONTIAC TO KANKAKEE...TO VALPARAISO INDIANA. DUE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW...THE SNOW MAY QUICKLY ACCUMULATE ON UNTREATED AREA ROADS...LEADING TO SOME POSSIBLE HAZARDOUS TRAVEL THIS AFTERNOON.
