Thursday, May 2, 2013

It's May 2 and snow is in the forecast


For the first time since Teddy Roosevelt was president, Kansas City could see over an inch of snow in early May.

The record for snowfall in early May is 1.7" - the National Weather Service is predicting one to three inches of snow tonight into Friday morning.

Here's the full forecast:
RAIN MIXED WITH SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA FROM THE NORTHWEST TODAY AND TONIGHT. SNOW MAY ACCUMULATE AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS AREAS NEAR AND NORTHWEST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR. MINOR ACCUMULATIONS OF ONE TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE AREAS...MAINLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT.