Snow, cold on the way

December 14, 2016

National Weather Service forecasters say snow is likely Thursday, thought accumulation is expected to be light, and then the skies should clear Friday as the bottom falls out of the thermometer. More new snow is likely next week. Most of Thursday's snowfall is expected before 10 a.m., though flurries are possible throughout the day. As the sun goes down Thursday evening, the mercury is expected to go down with it, with temperatures expected to dip to two below zero. With a breeze of about eight miles per hour from the northeast, it will fell considerably cooler. We should see sun Friday morning, but it's not expected to warm things up much -- the daytime high is expected to reach a balmy 10-degrees and winds are expected to pick up to about 11 miles-per-hour, pushing the windchill as low as -24 degrees. It gets really chilly Friday night, with an overnight low temperature of -12 expected. Saturday is expected to stay sunny and cold, with a high again of 10-degrees, but thermometers are expected to stay on the upside of zero Saturday night with an overnight low of one degree. A 20-percent chance of light snow returns Sunday, with a daytime high of 15-degrees expected, and both the temperatures and the chance of snow edge up on Monday, when the chance of snow rises to 30-percent and a high temperature of 23 is predicted. The likelihood of snow increases Monday night and into Tuesday as temperatures climb into the upper 20s to low 30s. The chance of snow sticks around through Thursday, December 22. If you're traveling south Thursday morning you can expect heavier snow, as a winter weather advisory has been issued for an area including Shoshone County and much of Kootenai County, where three to six inches of new snow is expected by 10 a.m.