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From: interwarn@xxxxxxxx Date: December 14, 2008 4:26:57 PM GMT-05:00 To: interwarn@xxxxxxxx Subject: Winter Weather Advisory Reply-To: interwarn@xxxxxxxx WWUS43 KILX 142109 WSWILX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN IL 309 PM CST SUN DEC 14 2008 ..A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN...SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW TONIGHT TO WELCOME IN A BLAST OF ARCTIC AIR... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PLOW THROUGH THE AREA THIS EVENING DROPPING TEMPERATURES SOME 20 TO 30 DEGREES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. THERE WILL BE SOME RAIN WITH THE COLD FRONT THIS EVENING...QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY A PERIOD OF FREEZING RAIN... SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW FROM WEST TO EAST DURING THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. WIND CHILL READINGS WILL DROP TO SUBZERO LEVELS IN AREAS WEST OF THE ILLINOIS RIVER BY DAWN MONDAY. ILZ038-042>046-051>057-061-150230- /O.NEW.KILX.WW.Y.0012.081215T0300Z-081215T1500Z/ MCLEAN-LOGAN-DE WITT-PIATT-CHAMPAIGN-VERMILION-SANGAMON-CHRISTIAN- MACON-MOULTRIE-DOUGLAS-COLES-EDGAR-SHELBY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BLOOMINGTON...NORMAL...LINCOLN... CHAMPAIGN...URBANA...DANVILLE...SPRINGFIELD...TAYLORVILLE... DECATUR...CHARLESTON...MATTOON...SHELBYVILLE 309 PM CST SUN DEC 14 2008 ..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LINCOLN HAS ISSUED A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR LIGHT ICING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM THIS EVENING TO 9 AM CST MONDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING CHANGING THE RAIN TO FREEZING RAIN...THEN SLEET AND LIGHT SNOW. ICE ACCUMULATIONS OF AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF UP TO AN INCH WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...WHICH WILL CREATE SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS THROUGH THE NIGHT AND FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE ON MONDAY. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW...SLEET...OR FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SLIPPERY ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. $$ SMITH
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