Heavy Snow in Stark, Illinois

Numerous weather observers measured 5 to 7 inches of snow across Stark County. The heavy snow led to dangerous road conditions and several traffic accidents.

Low pressure tracking from the Oklahoma panhandle during the morning of January 8th to southeast Michigan by the evening of January 9th spread a mixture or rain and snow across central Illinois. Light snow developed everywhere north of the I-70 corridor by the evening of January 8th: however, as the low approached from the southwest and temperatures warmed, the snow changed to rain east of the Illinois River by the morning of January 9th. Snow accumulations of 2 to 3 inches occurred along and west of a Jacksonville to Bloomington line...while amounts of 5 to 7 inches were observed west of the Illinois River where the precipitation remained mostly in the form of snow throughout the entire event.