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Areas of Critical Fire Weather and Heavy Snow Friday

Gusty winds and low relative humidity will bring critical fire weather to parts of southern New England and Hawaii Friday where Red Flag Warnings have been issued. Several feet of snow may accumulate over the Cascades from late Friday night into Monday evening as a storm system move through the Pacific Northwest. Read More >

 

A winter storm moved across the region beginning Wednesday January 20th and continued through much of the day Thursday January 21, 2016.  Folks across north central Kansas have been reporting some impressive snow totals from the winter storm. Much of north central Kansas received between 5 and 9 inches of snow with the highest amount of 10 inches coming in from Barnes. The storm system was slow moving with snow beginning Wednesday evening over north central Kansas, and then it just pivoted over the area for much of Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Eventually the snowfall started spreading east across northeast and east central Kansas. However the system weakened as the snow moved east so snow amounts were lower.  

Below are some images of the snow from around the area. 

 

 

Left: A four legged friend hunting through the snow near Fort Riley, KS     Photo courtesy of Bonnie Congdon

Right: Snow piling up in the back yard near Junction City, KS     Photo courtesy of Christine Jones

 

More fun in the snow near Manhattan, KS     Photo courtesy of Jared Ireland

 

Dogs enjoying the snow near Manhattan, KS on Thursday January 21, 2016

Photo courtesy of Karen Kryschtal