MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A major winter snowstorm is heading into a wide swath of U.S. Midwest, bringing with it possible blizzard conditions, forecasters said Sunday.
The National Weather Service said a first shot of snow would track northeast from the central Plains into southern Wisconsin Sunday night and Monday, with a second, stronger storm expected to hit northern Illinois and Indiana late Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Forecasters said 2 to 4 inches of snow was expected over most of southern Wisconsin, with a few locations possibly receiving 5 inches by late Monday morning.
They said the second storm is expected to develop in the southern Plains Tuesday, then track northeast into northern Illinois and Indiana late Tuesday night and Wednesday, resulting in possible snowfalls of greater than 6 inches in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
Meanwhile, the northern and western flanks of the storm will see heavy, wind-driven snow falling from the Sierra Nevadas of California through the Colorado Rockies and other mountains across the Four Corners area of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, Accuweather.com reported.
