1-2-17 Illinois Forecast: Arctic cold continues through the week…watching a late weekend storm system. N.

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Happy New Year!!  The brutal cold is the story once again.  Wind chill alerts until noon today for wind chills from 15 to 35 below zero.

An upper-level disturbance will move across the state late tonight into Wednesday, bringing the threat for some scattered snow showers. Not a lot in terms of accumulation, a general coating of snow possible mainly central and north.

After a slight temperature moderation Wednesday, very cold air continues to reload over the area Thursday-Saturday as a major storm rides up the east coast:

The next real weather maker to track looks to move in Sunday into Monday.  This could bring a real mess of mixed precipitation types as much warmer air rides over our cold ground.  Precip types/placement/amounts are in question right now, so be sure to check back over the coming days as we gradually get a better handle.