One to two inches of snow is on the ground as far south as the Ohio River. Only in Kentucky is the snow cover spotty. An upper level low pressure system moving slowly through the Southern Plains spread light snow as far north as central Illinois on December 26. Amounts ranged from two to three inches in the southern half of Missouri to an inch or less in Illinois and Indiana. This was the same storm system that brought severe icing to parts of Texas and Arkansas.
More snow is anticipated through the end of the year.
Three separate major winter storms traveled through the Midwest during the week of December 13-19. A foot of snow was common over a very wide region from southern Missouri to northern Michigan, with the latter reaching totals of more than two feet. Several major climatic records were set, and the drought status of Kentucky and eastern Ohio was greatly reduced or eliminated. Milwaukee has set already a new all-time December snow fall record with 32.9 inches through December 19, and more snow is likely before the end of the month. Springfield, MO, has tied its December snow fall record through the 19th, at 16.7 inches, and will likely exceed it before the end of the month.