Forecasters say there's a good chance of snow for southeast Nebraska, southwest Iowa and northwest Missouri from Thursday night into Saturday.
The National Weather Service office in Valley said 1 to 3 inches will be possible across the region late Thursday into Friday. The Friday morning commute could be messy, the weather service said.
An additional round of snow Friday night into Saturday could drop another 1 to 2 inches on the region, forecasters said.
Ryan McPike, a KMTV meteorologist, said a computer forecasting model was calling for 5 to 6 inches of snow. Another was predicting 13 inches Thursday night into Saturday.
"We are talking about accumulating snow later this week,'' he said. "Somebody is going to get a lot of snow.''
Area forecast
Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low around 11. Light south southwest wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the evening. Thursday Partly sunny, with a high near 35. South wind 5 to 8 mph becoming north in the morning. Thursday Night A 20 percent chance of snow after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Friday A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly between 7am and 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 20. North northeast wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Friday Night Snow likely, mainly after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 8. North northeast wind 10 to 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Saturday Snow likely, mainly before 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 15. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Saturday Night A 40 percent chance of snow, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 2. Sunday Mostly sunny, with a high near 22.Road conditions
Omaha's main streets were in decent shape early Wednesday, plowed and salted. Residential streets were plowed for the most part, but still snow-packed in some locations.
The Nebraska Department of Transportation's website showed the western two-thirds of the state's roads were normal to wet, while most eastern and southeastern roadways were completely covered. Roads in the east and northeast were partially covered.
Snowfall
At 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, the weather service said Eppley Airfield had 0.6 inches; Florence, 0.7; Valley, 0.7; Lincoln, 0.6; Wilber, 3.7; Grand Island, 3.0; Hastings, 2.0; Valentine, 0.3.
McPike reported these totals in inches Wednesday morning: Millard, 1.0; Offutt Air Force Base, 0.8; Gretna, 1.6; Tecumseh, 4.0; Wilber, 3.7.
