By the Associated Press and KFDI News:
The National Weather Service is warning of bitter cold descending on several Midwest states, including Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and parts of Missouri, as a winter storm system dropped some snow, sleet and freezing rain on those areas early Tuesday.
The weather service has issued a wind chill warning for much of western and northern Nebraska until noon Wednesday, with sub-zero temperatures and high winds combining to send the wind chill plummeting to a dangerous 40 below zero in some areas including Chadron, Alliance and Broken Bow by early Wednesday morning.
Much of Kansas could see wind chills as low as 20 below, while most of Iowa and a northwest segment of Missouri were warned to expect wind chills around 15 below.
The Wichita area had light snow early Tuesday with a morning low of 10 degrees and a wind chill of -11. The high will only reach 27 and then Tuesday night’s temperatures will drop to 6, with dangerous wind chills from -10 to -15. Snow is in the forecast for Thursday, and areas northeast of Wichita could see one to two inches of snow. Much of southwestern and southern Kansas could get a trace to an inch.
