Heavy snow heading to Kansas – including Wichita

A major winter storm is expected to bring heavy, wet snow and strong winds to Kansas — including Wichita — for the next couple of days.

“Certainly, anyone from Pratt west needs to be extremely vigilant in getting prepared for this storm,” said Mike Smith, chief executive officer of WeatherData Services, a subsidiary of AccuWeather.
“Some areas could easily get a foot and a half, and there might be some spots that get more.”

The National Weather Service has already issued a winter storm watch for much of western Kansas from late Thursday night to late Friday night, with as much as 10 inches of snow expected near the Oklahoma border and gusty winds creating blizzard conditions at times on Friday.

Wichita can also expect snow on Friday into Saturday, forecasters say — and it could be a lot.

“You can’t even rule out a foot” of snow for Wichita, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Jakub said. “It just depends on the track.”

See Thursday’s Eagle for more on this story.

  • littleoldlady69

    sure.. now that spring is here, we’re gonna get blizzard condition after having a mild warm winter in central Kansas.

  • Vette78

    Yeah, right..a foot of snow in Wichita. Dream on.

  • monkeysee

    “You can’t even rule out a foot” of snow for Wichita, National Weather Service meteorologist Chris Jakub said. “It just depends on the track.”

    TRANSLATION: It depends on how long we can hype this “winter event” on the evening news before we have to tell the viewers the truth…2-4 inches.

  • humancalculator

    Great, I need to go grocery shopping too. Now all the idiots will be there buying everything to sustain themselves during our “HUGE” blizzard.

  • supertwister

    All we will get is just a dusting, every time they predict a “Big Storm” nothing ever amounts to anything. This is a text book forecast for Wichita that will prove to be just as it is……a prediction of nonsense!!!

  • kinkygee

    You’re the people who never go the storm cellar, either — am I right?

  • jlmjpg

    If you don’t like the weather in Kansas, just wait a day or two it will change.

  • jdl535

    well at least it all will melt in a day or so…

  • the_truth_hurts

    The blizzard is predicted to hit about the time of the KU game on Friday night….