If you're hoping and praying for a white Christmas in Missouri and Illinois, you will want to see what multiple computer models are showing could happen just prior to December 25.
There are many who have trusted Farmer's Almanac predictions for decades when they issue long-term weather forecasts. If you're one of them, you'll probably want to know that they have just red flagged Missouri for a week in January that concerns them.
Thanks to many forecasts issued well in advance, we knew that Missouri and Illinois would be getting the first real measurable snowfall over the Thanksgiving weekend. What we didn't expect is some places in both states ended up with just below five inches of snow.
We're now close enough to the incoming storm system that forecasters at the National Weather Service in St. Louis now think they have a good idea which areas will be impacted by snow and they're now warning about interstate travel on Saturday.